ABSENT
synopsis
For over a hundred years, Mărculeşti 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-four years later, few speak clearly or honestly about what happened. Absent is a cinematic portrait of the ghost village of Mărculeşti, its current inhabitants, and their very complex relationship to their own history.
international title: | Absent |
original title: | Absent |
country: | Romania, Switzerland, United States |
year: | 2015 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Matthew Mishory |
film run: | 71' |
cinematography by: | Michael Marius Pessah |
film editing: | Marc Cohen |
music: | Gilead Mishory |
producer: | Edward Singletary, Randall Walk, Sabin Dorohoi |
production: | Western Transylvania Studios, Iconoclastic Features [US], Willona Prod [US] |