On June 29, 1941, the Jewish residents of the city of Iasi were rounded up and beaten, shops and homes were looted, and most of the men were shot or crowded onto trains, where they later died of asphyxiation. While Germans took part in the pogrom, the majority of the perpetrators were Romanian policemen, military officers and civilians. How can a film deal with this crime? Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă have opted for a radical, pared-down approach: their film lists the names of those who died from A to Z, illustrating them with photographs from passports and family albums. Astoundingly sober accounts are heard in voiceover. Through repetition, accumulation and variation, the filmmakers make the scale of the atrocity tangible, allow nuances to emerge and give the number of victims – 13,000 – concrete form, until, at the end, after about two-and-a-half hours, they draw on an entirely different visual register.

Language: Romanian

Subs srt: Portuguese / English   
   
Genre: Documentary / History       
 
Format : AVI 
Codec ID : XVID 
File size : 1.54 GB 
Duration : 2h 53min 
Video bit rate : 1135 kb/s 
Width : 1240 pixels 
Height : 696 pixels 
Display aspect ratio : 16:9 
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS 
Codec ID/Hint : MP3 
Audio bit rate : 128 kb/s