Landscapes of Resistance

A documentary biograghic movie. Sonja Vujanovic was one of the first women who joined the partisan resistance movement in Yugoslavia. She was inspired by the revolutionary books she received from a classmate in high school, she joined the communist and antifascist organization in the late 1930s and in 1941 became a partisan fighter in German-occupied Serbia. She was captured, tortured and after several other prisons and concentration camps taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. There she became a member of the resistance and a leader of its combat unit. Landscapes of her revolutionary life as they exist today , the Serbian forests and mountains where the partisans gathered and the muddy grounds and countless chimneys of Auschwitz and her Belgrade flat where she lives with her husband and cat. The movie is Sonja's cinematic antifascist manifesto confronted with the rise of fascism in Europe today.