
“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.
Dir. Jan Bušta
2023-01-12
4K UHD • HDR10 • Dolby Vision
Dolby Atmos, 5.1, Stereo
Closed Captions (CC), Audio Description (AD)
PG-13 (13+)
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