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a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i-JONESTOWN (2023)
Directed by Jan Bušta
“Tell them, to drink the poison”
Documentary, Drama · 1h 17m
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
Crew
- Director
- Jan Bušta
- Screenplay
- Jan Bušta
- Director of Photography
- Jan Kundera, Michal Černý
- Editor
- Šimon Špidla
- Producer
- Radim Procházka
Details
- Original title
- á-B-C-D-é-F-G-H-CH-í-JONESTOWN
- Release date
- 2023-01-12
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech, English
- Countries
- Czech Republic
- Production
- Produkce Radim Procházka