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.
Production
Willona Prod · Iconoclastic Features · Western Transylvania Studios
Directors & Crew
Sabin Dorohoi
Producer
Edward Singletary
Producer
Randall Walk
Producer
Marco Cohen
Writer
Matthew Mishory
Director
Matthew Mishory
Screenplay
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