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Cast

Crew

Sabin Dorohoi

Sabin Dorohoi

Producer

Edward Singletary

Edward Singletary

Producer

Randall Walk

Randall Walk

Producer

Sharon Coryell

Sharon Coryell

Executive Producer

Ke Jeffery Shen

Ke Jeffery Shen

Executive Producer

Matthew Mishory

Matthew Mishory

Executive Producer

William M. Cartwright

William M. Cartwright

Executive Producer

Christophe Vauthey

Christophe Vauthey

Executive Producer

Max Gutbrod

Max Gutbrod

Co-Executive Producer

Sabin Dorohoi

Sabin Dorohoi

Line Producer

Michael Marius Pessah

Michael Marius Pessah

Cinematography

Marco Cohen

Marco Cohen

Writer

Matthew Mishory

Matthew Mishory

Director

Matthew Mishory

Matthew Mishory

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Absent

20155.8 / 1071 min
Documentary

Overview

For over a hundred years, Mărculești was a vibrant Jewish agricultural and mercantile community in Bessarabia (now present-day Moldova). In July 1941, the village was the site of an unimaginable atrocity. Seventy-three years later, few speak honestly or completely about what happened. ABSENT is a cinematic portrait of the ghost village of Mărculești, its current inhabitants, and their very complex relationship to their own history. Filmed entirely on location, the film documents one of Europe's poorest, most remote, and least-visited places.