a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i-JONESTOWN poster

a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i-JONESTOWN

Tell them, to drink the poison

0.0(0)20231h 17m1

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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Released
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Language
Czech
  • experimental
  • jonestown

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Behind the camera

Director

Jan Bušta

Writers

Jan Bušta

Produced in

Czech Republic

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Release dates

  • CzechiaCZ

    • Premiere Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival26 Oct 2022
    • TheatricalU12 Jan 2023

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a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i-JONESTOWN was released on 12 January 2023.

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