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Tell them, to drink the poison
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.
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Details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
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- Languages
- English
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- Age rating
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- Quality
- 4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
- Production
- Produkce Radim Procházka
Crew
Director
Jan Bušta
Writers
Jan Bušta
Michal Černý
Director of Photography
Jan Kundera
Director of Photography
Šimon Špidla
Editor
Petra Vlachynská
Production Design
Jan Cechl
Production Design
