Absent (2015)
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.
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| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ro |
| Popularity | 1.752 |
Directed By
Matthew Mishory
Crew
Michael Marius Pessah
Max Gutbrod
Sabin Dorohoi
Ke Jeffery Shen
Matthew Mishory
Christophe Vauthey
Sharon Coryell
William M. Cartwright
Edward Singletary
Randall Walk
Sabin Dorohoi
Marco Cohen
Matthew Mishory
Matthew Mishory
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