exitofthetrains

exitofthetrains

Directors: Adrian Cioflâncã and Radu Jude
Country: Romania
Year: 2020
Running time: 175 min
In B&W
In Romanian with English subtitles

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THE EXIT OF THE TRAINS

This is a documentary essay composed entirely of archival photographs and documents of the first big massacre of the Jews in Romania: In the city of Iași, on the 29th of June 1941, more than 10,000 Jews were killed - first by bullets, then by asphyxiation in freight trains.

The film, which is an attempt to use the montage of archival materials in order to offer a deep and special view of History, has two parts: 

The first part of the film could be titled "the encyclopedia of the dead": photographs of the people who were eventually killed by the Romanian army and by civilians are accompanied by voices who recite the documents related to their fate in the massacre: witness accounts, testimonies from the post-war trials, interviews with survivors, private diaries etc. 

The second part, shorter, represents a montage of the remaining photographs of the actual massacre (taken mostly by the German soldiers who were in town).

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