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Release Date:
November 10, 2015
Original Title:
Absent
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Iconoclastic Features
Western Transylvania Studios
Willona Prod
Production Countries:
Romania | Switzerland | United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 71
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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Cinematography:
Michael Marius Pessah
Co-Executive Producer:
Max Gutbrod
Director:
Matthew Mishory
Executive Producer:
Sharon Coryell
Ke Jeffery Shen
Matthew Mishory
William M. Cartwright
Christophe Vauthey
Line Producer:
Sabin Dorohoi
Producer:
Sabin Dorohoi
Edward Singletary
Randall Walk
Screenplay:
Matthew Mishory
Writer:
Marco Cohen
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