"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
Direction
Jude's long takes force you to witness without escape.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes irony against nationalist amnesia.
Acting
Iacob's Mariana weaponizes bureaucratic cheerfulness.
Director
Radu Jude
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title quote comes from Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu, still a contested figure in Romanian nationalism.
Jude cast actual Romanian history professors in small roles; some walked off set disagreeing with the film's politics.
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