Completed - ROMANIAN - Historical, Documentary - 175 minutes
Year of production : 2020 Director(s) : Radu JUDE, Adrian CIOFLANCA Writer(s) : Radu JUDE, Adrian CIOFLANCA Producer(s) : Ada SOLOMON (microFILM), Carla FOTEA, Radu JUDE
This is a documentary essay composed entirely of archive photographs and documents of the first big massacre of the Jews in Romania: in the city of Iași, on the 29th of June 1941, more than 10.000 Jews were killed - first by bullets, than by asphyxiation in freight trains.The film, which is an attempt to use the montage of archive materials in order to offer a deep and special view of History, has two parts: The first part of the film could be titled "the encyclopedia of the dead": photographs of the people who were eventually killed by the Romanian army and by civilians are accompanied by voices who recite the documents related to their fate in the massacre: witness accounts, testimonies from the post-war trials, interviews with survivors, private diaries etc. The second part, shorter, represents a montage of the remaining photographs of the actual massacre (taken mostly by the German soldiers who were in town).
Country(ies) : ROMANIA
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