
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.
Release Date: 11/10/2015
Runtime: 71 minutes
Languages: English, Romanian, Russian
Director: Matthew Mishory
00Companies: Willona Prod, Iconoclastic Features, Western Transylvania Studios
Countries: Switzerland, United States of America, Romania
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