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Absent

Nov 10, 2015
1h 11m
★ 5.8

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Willona Prod
Iconoclastic Features
Western Transylvania Studios

Cast

No Cast found.

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