

Absent
For over a hundred years, Mărculești was a vibrant Jewish agricultural and mercantile community in Bessarabia (now present-day Moldova). In July 1941, the village was the site of an unimaginable atrocity. Seventy-three years later, few speak honestly or completely about what happened. ABSENT is a cinematic portrait of the ghost village of Mărculești, its current inhabitants, and their very complex relationship to their own history. Filmed entirely on location, the film documents one of Europe's poorest, most remote, and least-visited places.
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- Language
- English
- holocaust (shoah)
- world war ii
- genocide
- romania
- small village
- moldova
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Switzerland, United States of America, Romania
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RomaniaRO
- PremiereAstra Film Festival5 Oct 2015
SpainES
- Theatrical (limited)Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo10 Nov 2015
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Absent was released on 10 November 2015.
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