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I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

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by Radu Jude

A director wants to re-enact a massacre but is confronted with great hostility.

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, a film by Radu Jude, 2019 © Mihai Chitu

Presentation

In 1941, the Romanian army massacred 20,000 Jews in Odessa. Nowadays, a young director wants to re-enact this painful episode through a military re-enactment in a public event, but she is confronted with great hostility.

Distribution

Followed by a meeting with Antoine de Baecque, historian, ENS-PSL, director of the Arts graduate programme and of the SACRe laboratory at the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres and Morgan Labar, contemporary art historian, director of the École supérieure d'art d'Avignon (ESAA)

Production

With the cinemas Utopia
In partnership with Transfuge magazine

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