Jakub Kanhäuser
A children's film about the largest mass suicide of the 20th century reconstructs the 1978 event. The Reverend Jim Jones forced nearly a thousand followers of his People's Temple sect to drink poison in the settlement of Jonestown, Guyana, South America. A third of them were children. Jan Bušta gives sadists, voyeurs, and necrophiliacs one minute to leave the cinema. His self-reflective documentary, which is the result of ten years of time-lapse filming, does not depict dramatic scenes. To the sound of an audio recording from that fateful day, we see a collage of child ghosts preaching about escaping the corruption of the world.
Homepage | http://www.radimprochazka.com/project/a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-ch-i-jonestown/ |
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Release Date | 2023-01-12 |
Runtime | 1h 17m |
Directors | Jan Bušta, Jan Kundera, Michal Černý |
Producers | Radim Procházka, Lubomír Konečný |
Writer | Jan Bušta |