“I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians.” These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of Romania in the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement. Notes: “military reenactment / Hannah Arendt / 1941, ‘the year that keeps returning,’ as seen from 2018 / quotations / firearms / archive footage / the Odessa massacre / burlesque / dialogues / Isaac Babel / fragmented narrative / ‘Wenn die Soldaten durch die Stadt marschieren’ / trivialization by comparison / barracks jokes / the present past, the past present.
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians"
"Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari"
59th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Radu Jude
- Script: Radu Jude
- Cinematography: Marius Panduru
- Editing: Cătălin Cristuțiu
- Sound: Dana Bunescu
- Actors: Ioana Iacob, Alexandru Dabija, Alex Bogdan, Ilinca Manolache, Șerban Pavlu, Ion Rizea
- Production: Hi Film Productions
- Producers: Ada Solomon
- Co-production: Endorfilm, Les Films d'ici, KLAS Film, Komplizen Film, ZDF/ARTE, TVR
- Co-producers: Jiří Konečný, Serge Lalou, Claire Dornoy, Rossitsa Valkanova, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade
- Art Direction: Iuliana Vîlsan
- Costumes: Iuliana Vîlsan
- Make Up: Petya Simeonova
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Romania, Czech Republic, France, Bulgaria, Germany
- Production Year: 2018
- Duration: 139΄
- Contact: Beta Cinema, beta@betacinema.com
- Awards/Distinctions: Crystal Globe, Europa Cinemas Label Award – Karlovy Vary IFF (2018) Golden Barge – Vukovar IFF 2018
Radu Jude
Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. In 2006, he made the short film The Tube with a Hat, winner of more than 50 international awards. Jude’s feature debut The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) was selected for more than 50 international film festivals. Titles such as Aferim!, Scarred Hearts, and Everybody in Our Family followed and won multiple awards. The international premiere of The Dead Nation in Locarno 2017 marked his debut in documentary film. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians won the Crystal Globe for Best Film and Label Europa Cinemas Prize in Karlovy Vary in 2018. Uppercase Print and The Exit of the Trains (co-directed with Adrian Cioflâncă), premiered in Berlinale Forum 2020. His next feature, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, won the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2021. In the summer of 2021, Radu Jude was present in Locarno IFF – Corti d’Autore with the short Caricaturana and in Venice IFF – Out of Competition with the short film Semiotic Plastic. His short The Potemkinists premiered in Directors' Fortnight in 2022 and has traveled in over 20 festivals up to now. In 2023, he won the Special Jury Prize in Locarno with Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. One year later, he returned to the same festival to premiere his two latest films: Eight Postcards From Utopia and Sleep #2.
Filmography
2006 The Tube with a Hat (short)
2009 The Happiest Girl in the World
2012 Everybody in Our Family
2015 Aferim!
2016 Scarred Hearts
2017 The Dead Nation (doc)
2018 I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
2021 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
2023 Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
2024 Eight Postcards from Utopia (doc)
2024 Sleep #2 (doc)
2009 The Happiest Girl in the World
2012 Everybody in Our Family
2015 Aferim!
2016 Scarred Hearts
2017 The Dead Nation (doc)
2018 I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
2021 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
2023 Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
2024 Eight Postcards from Utopia (doc)
2024 Sleep #2 (doc)
