For over a hundred years, Mărculești was a vibrant Jewish agricultural and mercantile community in Bessarabia (now present-day Moldova). In July 1941, the village was the site of an unimaginable atrocity. Seventy-three years later, few speak honestly or completely about what happened. ABSENT is a cinematic portrait of the ghost village of Mărculești, its current inhabitants, and their very complex relationship to their own history. Filmed entirely on location, the film documents one of Europe's poorest, most remote, and least-visited places.
Cast
Crew
Matthew Mishory
Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
Marco Cohen
Writer
Michael Marius Pessah
Cinematography
Ke Jeffery Shen
Executive Producer
Christophe Vauthey
Executive Producer
Sharon Coryell
Executive Producer
William M. Cartwright
Executive Producer
Max Gutbrod
Co-Executive Producer
Sabin Dorohoi
Producer, Line Producer
Edward Singletary
Producer
Randall Walk
Producer
