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a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i-JONESTOWN (2023)

Género : Documental, Drama

Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 17M

Director : Jan Bušta
Escritor : Jan Bušta

Sinopsis

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.

Actores

Jakub Kanhäuser
Jakub Kanhäuser

Tripulaciones

Jan Bušta
Jan Bušta
Director
Radim Procházka
Radim Procházka
Producer
Lubomír Konečný
Lubomír Konečný
Co-Producer
Jan Bušta
Jan Bušta
Screenplay
Michal Černý
Michal Černý
Director of Photography
Jan Kundera
Jan Kundera
Director of Photography
Šimon Špidla
Šimon Špidla
Editor
Jan Balcar
Jan Balcar
Sound Designer
Petra Vlachynská
Petra Vlachynská
Production Design
Jan Cechl
Jan Cechl
Production Design

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