PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON HEROES OF HALYARD WORLD WAR TWO MOVIE ON BIGGEST RESCUE MISSION IN THE HISTORY OF AIRFORCES! SEE THE NEW TRAILER

   HEROES OF HALYARD MOVIE 

WHEN SERBS SAVED OVER 500 US PILOTS FROM NAZI HANDS

Beside Guardians of the Formula period set thriller that just had its premiere over at Locarno Film Festival, and which will probably be one of Serbia's

The movie will premiere this October

strongest candidates in the race for the film that will represent the country at next year's Oscars, the film we are spotlighting today is also a strong contender! Back at the end of World War 2 Serbs saved more than 500 American and Allied pilots in the biggest individual rescue mission in the history of air forces. Serbian National Broadcaster has prepared a massive war epic on it titled HEROES OF HALYARD and simultaneously a mini TV series titled AIR BRIDGE. Beside a big number of Serbian actors, the cast also includes Carl Wharton, Nikola Kent, Stephen Moore, Adam Davenport and Jadran Malkovich under the helm of director Radosh Bajich. You can check the first official trailer below for the film that opens October 10th:

 

  HEROES OF HALYARD DRAMA

is inspired by the largest single rescue operation in the history of world aviation of about 508 American and other Allied pilots behind enemy lines, which took place at an improvised airport in the village of Pranjani at the foot of Serbian mountain Suvobor with the logistical support of the Yugoslav Royal Army in 1944 known by the code name "Operation Halyard".The story, based on historical facts, has members of the Jović family as its main protagonists. Two brothers from that family are in the conflicting armies, Mirko is in the Chetniks and Sreten is in the partisans. Their father is trying to protect his youngest son from joining any army. The story of Halyard is actually an apotheosis of heroism, friendship, charity, nobility and patriotism.

 DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON

The aim of the action was the evacuation of Allied airmen shot down over the Nazi occupied kingdom of Yugoslavia. It was the largest rescue operation of American Airmen in history with grand total of 432 U.S. and 80 Allied personnel airlifted in the heroic mission during which Serbian fighters and ordinary people risked their lives for the lives of pilots in the middle of the Nazi infested land. The rescued pilots were bombing Nazi targets over South East Europe, especially oil fields and refineries. Since almost half of their aircrafts were shot down during these missions, hundreds of pilots ended up in Serbia. The Germans offered cash to the local Serbian population for the capture of Allied airmen, but Serbian peasants accepted the airmen into their homes, risking the wrath of the Nazis, and fed them for months without any Allied help. Operation Halyard had the purpose of locating and rescuing all these men.