I don't care if we go down in history as barbarians

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Movie
German title I don't care if we go down in history as barbarians
Original title Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari
Country of production Bulgaria , Germany , France , Romania , Czech Republic
original language Romanian
Publishing year 2018
length 140 minutes
Rod
Director Radu Jew
script Radu Jew
production Ada Solomon
camera Marius Panduru
cut Catalin Cristutiu
occupation

I don't care if we go down in history as barbarians (original title Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari ) is a historical feature film by Radu Jude about the Odessa massacre in October 1941. In the film, a theater director sets out to to address the Romanian complicity in the Holocaust. The film, staged as a tragic comedy, premiered on July 2, 2018 as part of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and was released in Romanian cinemas on September 28, 2018.

action

Mariana Marin wants to deal with the Romanian complicity in the Holocaust and the " ethnic cleansing " of the early 1940s in a provocative play . The young artist plans to reconstruct the historical event. In doing so, she encounters a lot of headwind.

production

Staff, funding and film title

Directed by Radu Jude , who also wrote the script. In writing the dialogues, Jude received support from the Romanian writer and theater director Florin Lazarescu, who had already worked on his film Aferim! was involved in the scriptwriting. The film is a joint production by Romania with Bulgaria, Germany, France and the Czech Republic.

Ion Antonescu at a meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich in June 1941

The film title, in the original Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie from intra ca barbar , which translates as “I don't care whether we go down in history as barbarians”, alludes to a speech by the Romanian politician Mihai Antonescu who said it said in the Council of Ministers in the summer of 1941 when the “ethnic cleansing” began on the Eastern Front. The film tries to comment on this statement. In the Odessa massacre in October 1941, Romanian occupation forces murdered around 25,000 Jews. Romania was an ally of National Socialist Germany at the time, and there is still a lot of admiration for “Hitler's forgotten allies” in Romania today.

The director said he tried to draw attention to a chapter in the history of his homeland that had been hidden for decades: “I study history in order to find a connection to the present. My film deals with the lack of memories of these events in contemporary Romanian society. In addition, it should show possibilities to describe the ethnic cleansing of the Romanian army from today's perspective. I don't believe history repeats itself. But we will also see in the present that there is racism and anti-Semitism as well as the denial of genocide. That is why a story from that time matters to us. And that's why I connect the present with the past. "

One reason to address the issue, Jude said in an interview with Variety's Will Tizard , was that he belonged to a generation that had been lied to and that never told anyone about the dark parts of Romanian history. The denial of the Holocaust in Romania no longer exists on an official level today, and the statues of the Romanian war leader Ion Antonescu have all been removed from public places, which for Jude could have been conditions for Romania's accession to the EU.

Filming and publishing

The shooting took place in the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest . Marius Panduru acted as cameraman .

The film premiered on July 2, 2018 as part of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and was released in Romanian cinemas on September 28, 2018. In August 2018 the film was presented at the Sarajevo Film Festival , in September 2018 at the Toronto International Film Festival . At the Hamburg Film Festival in autumn 2018 he was named in the Veto! shown. In October and November 2018 it was shown at the Viennale , afterwards also at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival . The film is offered in Germany on the Grandfilm platform at Vimeo . A theatrical release in Germany is planned for May 30, 2019. The distribution rights for the film are held by Beta Cinema.

reception

Reviews

The film was able to convince 96 percent of the Rotten Tomatoes critics and achieved an average rating of 8.5 out of a possible 10 points.

In TV Movie it is said that Radu Jude's latest film is a worthy winner of the Karlovy Vary 2018 International Film Festival, which warns against the loss of the culture of remembrance in times of emerging right-wing populism .

Producer Ada Solomon and actress Ioana Iacob at the screening of the film in Toronto

Karsten Munt explains in his review what the headwind that Mariana Marin experiences during her staging looks like: “The victims' actors are completely overwhelmed by the directing instruction to cry for their lives, the old men who are the“ dirty Jews ” (as they call themselves) do not want to be mixed with the Roma and a particularly brazen Wehrmacht actor tries to incite his colleagues against the "anti-Romanian work". "

Of the film magazine epd film was I do not care if we as barbarians in history determined to film the month of May of 2019. There it says: “The conversations between actors, producers, onlookers and the director show the current tension that comes with dealing with this dark chapter in Romanian history. Sometimes it comes off in laughter. In the end, it discharges in a brilliant finale that raises questions. There is no end to coming to terms with the past . It has to be constantly updated because the past is not past. "

Awards (selection)

The film was submitted to the 2019 Academy Awards as a Romanian nominee in the Best Foreign Language Film category . He is also in a preselection for the European Film Awards 2019 . Further awards and nominations follow.

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018

Hamburg Film Festival 2018

  • Nomination in the Political Film category of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
  • Nomination for the Art Cinema Award of the international association of art film theaters

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Will Tizard: Berlin Winner Radu Jude on Holocaust Denial Film 'Barbarians'. In: Variety, June 29, 2018.
  2. ^ A b Karlovy Vary Film Festival: Main prize for Holocaust drama. In: Focus Online, July 8, 2018.
  3. ↑ Cronica filmului Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari . Adevărul.ro
  4. ↑ Jean Ancel : Surse arhivistice despre "Holocaustul din România" - Stenograma ședinței guvernului din 8 iulie 1941 (doc. 3)
  5. ↑ http://cineuropa.org/film/355114/
  6. ↑ Martina Schneibergová and Ian Willoughby: Karlovy Vary Film Festival: Main prize to Radu Jude. In: radio.cz, July 9, 2018.
  7. ↑ https://films.sff.ba/en/detail/?film=I-Do-Not-Care-If-We-Go-Down-in-History-as-Barbarians
  8. ^ I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians. In: tiff.net. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  9. ^ Filmfest Hamburg names first titles. In: mediabiz.de, July 18, 2018.
  10. ↑ Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari. In: viennale.at. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  11. ^ I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians. In: filmfestival.gr. Retrieved November 20, 2018.
  12. ↑ I don't care if we go down in history as barbarians on the VoD page of Grandfilm on Vimeo. (Video)
  13. ↑ Start dates in Germany . In: insidekino.com. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  14. ^ I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  15. ↑ https://www.tvmovie.de/news/karlovy-vary-film-festival-2018-die-gewinner-des-wettbewerbs-101134
  16. ↑ Karsten Munt: "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" - criticism. In: critic.de. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  17. ↑ Film of the Month May "I don't care if we go down in history as barbarians". In: epd Film, April 23, 2019.
  18. ↑ https://variety.com/2018/film/global/oscars-academy-awards-romania-radu-jude-1202893701/
  19. ^ Jochen Müller: Lola-Abräumer in pre-selection for the European Film Award. In: Blickpunkt: Film, August 20, 2019.
  20. ↑ EFA Feature Film Selection. In: europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
  21. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/07/07/world/europe/ap-eu-czech-film-fest
  22. ↑ https://www.tvmovie.de/news/karlovy-vary-film-festival-2018-die-gewinner-des-wettbewerbs-101134
  23. ↑ https://www.filmfesthamburg.de/de/information/awards/28774/05_Art_Cinema_Award