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I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS

I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS
by Radu Jude
Country: Romania, Germany, Bulgaria, France, Czech Republic
Year: 2018
Duration: 139'


“I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians”: thus, during a council of ministers in 1941, the decision was made to conduct an ethnic cleansing on the eastern front. Following the preparations for a historical reenactment directed by a young filmmaker, the movie returns to a black page in Romanian history, through archives, documents, words, indignation, and negation.

Biography

film director

Radu Jude

(Bucharest, Romania, 1977), graduated in film in 2003; he directed his first short in 2006 and debuted in feature films in 2009 with The Happiest Girl in the World, presented and awarded at the Berlinale Forum, as was his next movie, Everybody in Our Family (2012). He then participated in the Directors' Fortnight with the shorts Shadow of a Cloud (2013) and It Can Pass Through the Wall (2014). In 2015 he participated in competition at the Berlinale with Aferim!, which won the Silver Lion for best director. His movie Scarred Hearts (2016) participated in competition at the festival of Locarno, where, the following year, he presented his documentary about the extermination of the Jews in Romania during the 1930s and ‘40s, The Dead Nation, and in 2023 Don't Expect too Much from the End of the World, gaining the Jury Award. Torino Film Festival presented in 2018 I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, halfway among fiction, documentary, cinema and performance, which was followed by Uppercase Print (2020) and above all Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), Golden Bear in Berlin.

FILMOGRAFIA

In familie (serie tv, 2002), Lampa cu caciula (The Tube with a Hat, cm, 2006), Alexandra (cm, 2006), Dimineata (In the Morning, cm, 2007), Cea mai fericitã fatã din lume (The Happiest Girl in the World, 2009), Film pentru prieteni (A Film for Friends, 2011), Toata lumea din familia noastra (Everybody in Our Family, 2012), O umbra de nor (Shadow of a Cloud, cm, 2013), Trece si prin perete (It Can Pass Through the Wall, cm, 2014), Scurt/4: Istorii de inimã neagrã (coregia Andrei Cretulescu, Luiza Parvu, Iulia Rugina, 2014), Aferim! (2015), Inimi cicatrizate (Scarred Hearts, 2016), Tara moarta (The Dead Nation, doc., 2017), Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie vom intra ca barbari (I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, 2018), O fabula (cm, 2020), Nu stiu (cm, 2020), Stimati oameni de cultura (cm, 2020), Sesso sfortunato o follie porno (Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc, 2021), Caricaturana (cm, 2021), Plastic Semiotic (cm, 2021), Amintiri de pe Frontul de Est (cm, 2022), Potemkinistii (The Potemkinists, cm, 2022), Nu astepta prea mult de la sfârsitul lumii (Don't Expect too Much from the End of the World, 2023).

Declaration

film director

“Thinking about our dark history makes one look back with the horrified gaze of Walter Benjamin’s angel of history, whose ‘face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.’”

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Radu Jude
fotografia/cinematography
Marius Panduru
montaggio/film editing
Cătălin Cristuțiu
scenografia, costumi/production design, costume design
Iuliana Vîlsan
suono/sound
Jean Umanski
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Ioana Iacob (Mariana), Alexandru Dabija (Movilă), Alex Bogdan (Traian), Ilinca Manolache (Oltea), Șerban Pavlu (Ștefan), Ion Rizea (Alexianu), Claudia Ieremia (la vicesindaco/vice-mayor), Bogdan Cotleț (Decebal), Ion Arcudeanu (Lăcustă), Mihai Niculescu (Lupu), Eduard Cîrlan (Barbu), Tudorel Filimon (Laiotă).
produttore/producer
Ada Solomon
coproduttori/coproducers
Jiří Konečný, Serge Lalou, Claire Dornoy, Rossitsa Valkanova, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade
produzione/production
Hi Film Productions
coproduzione/coproduction
Endorfilm, Klas Film, Komplizen Film, Les Films d’Ici, ZDF/Arte

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contatti/contacts
Beta Cinema
Cosima Finkbeiner
cosima.finkbeiner@betacinema.com
www.betacinema.com
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