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“Tell them, to drink the poison”
2023•U•1h 17m•Released
DocumentaryDrama
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.
Director
Jan Bušta
Writer
Jan Bušta
Languages
Czech, English
Studio
Produkce Radim Procházka
Cast
Jakub Kanhäuser
Production
Company
Produkce Radim Procházka
Producer
Radim Procházka
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