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2023•1h 17m•U•Documentary•Drama

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.

Jan Bušta · Director

Jan Bušta · Screenplay

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 17m
LanguageCS
Release DateJan 12, 2023

Actors

Jakub Kanhäuser

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