

a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i-JONESTOWN
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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- Released
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- Czech
- experimental
- jonestown
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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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