á-B-C-D-é-F-G-H-CH-í-JONESTOWN
MovieTitle | á-B-C-D-é-F-G-H-CH-í-JONESTOWN |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 12, 2023 |
Genre | Documentary, Drama |
Director | Jan Bušta |
Production country | Czech Republic |
Production companies | Produkce Radim Procházka |
Run time | 77 min. |
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.