Red Age - crimes of communists in Serbia and Montenegro 1944 - 1947 - 1st episode Red Age - crimes of communists in Serbia and Montenegro 1944 - 1947 - 1st episode This episode with English subtitles: • Red Age age) - Ep. 1 - Commu... Documentary series, 2004, 6 episodes Author: Dr. Dušan T. Bataković, historian, "The Red Age" is a documentary film that deals with the systematic extermination of the bourgeois class in Serbia and Montenegro by the revolutionary, communist authorities. The project specifically deals with the events in Serbian cities after the entry of communist forces in 1944-45, the suffering of professors, industrialists, merchants, doctors, lawyers, artists, writers, priests and other distinguished citizens and their family members on the territory of Serbia and Montenegro. The research is focused on the period from 1941 to 1947, when the largest number of arrests and liquidations took place. The film was created as a result of the project "Dealing with the totalitarian legacy of communism in Serbia and Montenegro" of the non-governmental organization "Council for Democratic Changes", which was realized by a team of historians and journalists (Radmila Pejić, Aleksandar Marinković, Saša Mišić, Zoran Skopljak , Nebojša Berec, Branko Vučković, Ivan Becić) led by the author of the project and the president of the Council, Dušan T. Bataković. Editor: Petar Jakonić. In addition to material from the archives and documents, the most important source of data are the statements of direct witnesses, victims or their descendants who directly felt the revolutionary change of government in the fall of 1944. All the statements of the interviewed witnesses were recorded on camera and as such are a valuable source for other research concerning the period before the Second World War, the war itself and the period after the war when the communist government was established in Yugoslavia. As the interviewed witnesses in the period covered by the research are already at the end of their biological life, their statements represent a valuable source of information that remains for further research. Over a hundred hours of conversations were recorded, several hours of film material from the Museum of the Yugoslav Cinematheque and Film News relating to the period from 1941 to the mid-1950s were selected. All collaborators on the project are people without ideological prejudices who approached the entire project with the ambition that the work on it represents a sober research based on archival materials and testimonies, which does not want to revalue history, but to shed a new light on the period it deals with, with which the chaos created in these areas during the Second World War will be illuminated from a new angle. The film is uploaded to YouTube with the permission of the author, Dr. Dusana T. Bataković. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438812/ http://www.batakovic.com/