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2023 | 77 min | Documentary, Drama

Monday Morning Maybeearly rating

Why it’s a Monday Morning Maybe

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Is it for you?

Who'll love it
Made for the curious.
The mood
Eye-opening.
The pace
Takes its time with its characters, at 1 hr 17 min.
What might put you off
It's in another language, so expect subtitles (or a dub).

A children's film about the largest mass suicide of the 20th century reconstructs the 1978 event. The Reverend Jim Jones forced nearly a thousand followers of his People's Temple sect to drink poison in the settlement of Jonestown, Guyana, South America. A third of them were children. Jan Bušta gives sadists, voyeurs, and necrophiliacs one minute to leave the cinema. His self-reflective documentary, which is the result of ten years of time-lapse filming, does not depict dramatic scenes. To the sound of an audio recording from that fateful day, we see a collage of child ghosts preaching about escaping the corruption of the world.

How it earned its rating

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  • AwardsNot counted

    No major awards or nominations

  • Reach & staying powerNot counted

    Streaming release that reached a small audience so far

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Cast & crew

Directed by Jan Bušta

  • Jakub Kanhäuser