A children's film about the largest mass suicide of the 20th century reconstructs the 1978 event. The Reverend Jim Jones forced nearly a thousand followers of his People's Temple sect to drink poison in the settlement of Jonestown, Guyana, South America. A third of them were children. Jan Bušta gives sadists, voyeurs, and necrophiliacs one minute to leave the cinema. His self-reflective documentary, which is the result of ten years of time-lapse filming, does not depict dramatic scenes. To the sound of an audio recording from that fateful day, we see a collage of child ghosts preaching about escaping the corruption of the world.
Released: Jan 12, 2023
Runtime: 77 minutes
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Stars: Jakub Kanhäuser
Crew: Jan Bušta (Director), Radim Procházka (Producer), Lubomír Konečný (Co-Producer), Jan Bušta (Screenplay), Michal Černý (Director of Photography), Jan Kundera (Director of Photography)