REACTIONS

On The Port of Šibenik, War Trophy in Film Cans, and Destroying of Croatian Film Stock

Polemical response to Dejan Kosanović’s article from the latest issue, which was already written in answer to Enes Midžić’s previous article Coronation of Serbian King and The Port of Šibenik. In this response, the special attention is given to Kosanović’s statement that Croatian film stock, which is archived in Yugoslav Film Archive in Belgrade, was war trophy taken after the defeat of the Axis in World War Two. This article brings new evidences, which proves that the film stock — with many newsreels and even the original stock of the first Croatian feature film Lisinski (1944) — were actually taken by state security police to Belgrade between 1958 and 1962 (thus, 13 years after WW2), and that after police examination it was supposed to be returned to federal Croatian police security office, which never happened.

Enes Midžić