Absent
2015•1h 11m•5.8•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Matthew Mishory
Writer
Marco Cohen, Matthew Mishory
Languages
English, Romanian, Russian
Studio
Willona Prod
Production
Company
Willona Prod
Company
Iconoclastic Features
Company
Western Transylvania Studios
Producer
Sabin Dorohoi
Producer
Edward Singletary
Producer
Randall Walk
Recommended
6.9
Misha and the Wolves
2021
7.2
Chuck Norris vs Communism
2015
7.2
Black Sheep
2018
6.4
A Toxic Love Story
2026
8
My Mom Jayne
2025
8.1
2000 Meters to Andriivka
2025
7.1
Audrey
2020
7.3
More than a Game
2008
7
Directed by John Ford
1971
7.1
The Class of ‘92
2013
7.2
All the Empty Rooms
2025
7.6
42 Up
1999
7.6
To Kill a Tiger
2023
6.4
Dawg Fight
2015
8.4
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
2025
7.1
Come See Me in the Good Light
2025
7.8
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019
7.5
Stephen Curry: Underrated
2023
8.2
For Sama
2019
7.4
McQueen
2018
Similar Movies
7
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
1944
B-17 Flying Legend
2007
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
2009
10
Around the Statue of Liberty - A Walk Through the USA
1941
6
The Valkyrie Legacy
2008
Testimonies of a Massacre: Tula Toli
0
Four Years of Night
2013
6
The Ponzán Network
2022
Dukla - areál spomienok
1997
10
Time of Fear
2005
Caring Corrupted: The Killing Nurses of the Third Reich
2017
7.5
1997: The Birth of the Camera Phone
2017
6.9
Architects of Denial
2017
7
Madame V. Monsieur S.
1989
Thanks Girls and Goodbye
1988
The Keepers of the Streak
2015
5.7
Butterflies Do Not Live Here
1958
8
Objectif femmes
0
10
Cine de Emboscada
2017
6.7
Accidental Anarchist
2017