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I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

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A young artist reconstructs a historical event from 1941, in which the Romanian Army carried out ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front.

Critics Reviews

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Ben Sachs Chicago Reader 08/02/2019
4/4
This is heady stuff, but never daunting. Go to Full Review
Justin Chang Los Angeles Times 07/26/2019
The movie's refusal to dumb down its ideas, truncate its arguments or skimp on the power of its own verbiage is precisely what makes it so mesmerizing. Go to Full Review
Jonathan Romney Film Comment Magazine 07/22/2019
Director Radu Jude presents a simultaneously playful and intense meditation on the ways in which recreating the past can obscure history's meaning as one gets caught up in the making of illusion. Go to Full Review
Dan Sareen Vague Visages 09/21/2023
...narratively, Jude’s film achieves little... Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 02/24/2020
A
A brilliantly conceived film. Go to Full Review
Tim Brayton Alternate Ending 12/06/2019
4.5/5
What gives it nearly all its bite is the big questions it asks about history, and representing history through art. Go to Full Review
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Bogdan M 05/01/2024 In "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians," the story is undeniably compelling. However, I found myself struggling to connect with it on a deeper level. While the narrative is intriguing, I didn't feel as emotionally invested as I had hoped. Overall, while the story is thought-provoking, the experience left me wanting more in terms of personal engagement. See more Michael E 11/07/2020 Outstanding. Brilliantly directed and acted. Its theme is the prevalence of historical amnesia in societies that want to forget their brutalization and extermination of racial and ethnic minorities. That's what makes this Romanian production relevant for Americans, so many of whom prefer not to think about how slavery and genocide were instrumental, indeed essential, in building our country. It does help to have a knowledge of Holocaust history, and even more so if you already know about Romania's role in that event, which I do. And you have to have the patience to listen to the thought-provoking dialogues in the film. So if you can find that hard-to-get DVD, by all means do so. See more 04/25/2020 One of the worst films I've seen. Awful acting, pretentious and senseless dialogues. Long useless shots of penis and hanged people. Why? See more 07/23/2019 Я никак не мог пропустить кино о Холокосте в Одессе, который забрал моих прадедушек и прабабушек. Но это кино не переносится ни в Одессу, и не в то время. Это наше время и это место где евреев почти не осталось. И несмотря на это, оно расскрывает Холокост так, как я никогда не видел. Потому что это не трагедия прошлого. Я такого кино про Холокост раньше никогда не видел. Я такого кино просто никогда не видел. See more 07/08/2019 Timely and darkly humorous, the film challenges us to recognize the reverberations of the past in the present. See more 09/25/2018 I strongly recommend this powerful, exquisitely written and acted film on the difficulty in facing our savage, murderous sides. Ironic and beautifully conveyed message without being overly didactic. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A young artist reconstructs a historical event from 1941, in which the Romanian Army carried out ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front.
Director
Radu Jude
Producer
Ada Solomon
Screenwriter
Radu Jude
Distributor
Big World Pictures
Production Co
Endorfilm, Les Films d'ici, ZDF/Arte, Komplizen Film, Klas Film
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Romanian
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 19, 2019, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA)
$11.3K
Runtime
2h 20m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)