Despite some heavy-handed moments, it's hard not to be struck by the horror on display, especially knowing that director Antonijević and writer Nataa Drakulić based their screenplay on survivor testimony and court transcripts.

The veneer of historical reality is thin on the baldly nativist and manipulative Serbian World War II movie "Dara of Jasenovac

Thinly disguised propaganda, cynically using the Holocaust to push a troubling nativist agenda.

It's a shame, as this chapter of history, and the people who died, deserves more than to be used as a stick to poke people through cheap sentimentality...