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á-B-C-D-é-F-G-H-CH-í-JONESTOWN

20230.0 / 1077 min
Documentary, Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Jakub Kanhäuser

Jakub Kanhäuser

Crew

Jan Bušta

Jan Bušta

Director

Lubomír Konečný

Lubomír Konečný

Co-Producer

Michal Černý

Michal Černý

Director of Photography

Radim Procházka

Radim Procházka

Producer

Petra Vlachynská

Petra Vlachynská

Production Design

Jan Bušta

Jan Bušta

Screenplay

Jan Kundera

Jan Kundera

Director of Photography

Jan Cechl

Jan Cechl

Production Design

Šimon Špidla

Šimon Špidla

Editor

Jan Balcar

Jan Balcar

Sound Designer