I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS

IMI ESTE INDIFERENT DACA IN ISTORIE VOM INTRA CA BARBARI

By Radu JUDE

BETA CINEMA - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2018

“I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians.” These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.

Festivals
& Awards

Karlovy Vary IFF 2018
Official Selection - Competition Best Film
Toronto - TIFF 2018
Contemporary World Cinema
Busan IFF 2018
World Cinema
Rotterdam IFF 2019
Voices
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • ROMANIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, FRANCE, BULGARIA, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • ROMANIAN
    • Duration
    • 140 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Radu JUDE
    • Producer(s)
    • Ada SOLOMON (Hi Film Productions (RO))
    • Synopsis
    • military reenactment – Hannah Arendt – show – 1941, “the year that keeps returning”, as seen from 2018 – quotations – firearms – archive footage – the Odessa massacre – 16 mm and video – the Military Museum – negationism – videomapping – burlesque – dialogues – fanfare – Isaac Babel – fragmented narrative – Wenn die Soldaten durch die Stadt marschieren – trivialization by comparison – script by Marshal Antonescu – fire – directed by Radu Jude – featuring Ioana Iacob, Alexandru Dabija, Alex Bogdan – barrack jokes – ordinary people - nunca más! – the present past, the past present.