á-B-C-D-é-F-G-H-CH-í-JONESTOWN

Story

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.

«Tell them, to drink the poison»

Kurzinfos

Originaltitel

á-B-C-D-é-F-G-H-CH-í-JONESTOWN

Status

Released

Start

12.01.2023

Laufzeit

1 h 17 min

Originalsprache

cs

Genres

Dokumentarfilm, Drama