Synopsis
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
2018 ‘Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari’ Directed by Radu Jude
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
Ioana Iacob Alexandru Bogdan Alexandru Dabija Ion Rizea Claudia Ieremia Ion Arcudeanu Dana Bunescu Eduard Cîrlan Bogdan Cotleț Larisa Crunțeanu Liliana Ghiță Ilinca Harnut Rares Hontzu Ilinca Manolache Gheorghe Mezei Sofia Nicolaescu Mihai Niculescu Șerban Pavlu Dumitru Raducu Gabriel Spahiu Andrea Tokai Luca Tudor
Janine Jackowski Maren Ade Serge Lalou Claire Dornoy Ada Solomon Jonas Dornbach Jiří Konečný Holger Stern Rossica Valkanova Claudia Duca
나는 야만의 역사로 거슬러가도 상관하지 않는다, « Peu m'importe si l'Histoire nous considère comme des barbares », Mir ist es egal, wenn wir als Barbaren in die Geschichte eingehen, Peu m'importe si l'Histoire nous considère comme des barbares, Мне плевать, если мы войдем в историю как варвары, Не ме интересува дали историята ще ни запомни като варвари, Не занима ме да ли ћемо се уписати у историју као варвари, „Je mi jedno, že se zapíšeme do dějin jako barbaři“, 我們都是食人族, Eu Não Me Importo Se Entrarmos para a História como Bárbaros, Je mi jedno, že sa zapíšeme do dejín ako barbari, 野名留史又如何, Nie obchodzi mnie, czy przejdziemy do historii jako barbarzyńcy
Well, man, that was unsettling to say the least, and knowing that it's not fiction and that there really exist people like that makes it that much more horrifying. In many ways, we see the Second World War and the oppression and death of Jews and others during the "Odessa Massacre" in 1941, by Romanian nationalists and racists, as we see the preparation of this pretty large scale and fantastically crafted dramatisation of these events by people with few or no scruples and some crudity. The performances (if it was entirely acted) are excellent, with Iacob portraying this emotional decline as we see her questioning whether she even wants to continue with this endeavor when she is confronted, but the…
On historical amnesia. its consequences and the ways cinema can give form to history. This could be a dry discourse, but it has far too much humor in its own bitter desperate way for that and Jude own staging is far too smart to reduce everything to a one-note thesis.
a first class romanian talkie, close to the theatre stage, an intellectual exercise, using film to experiment on a substantial narrative construct. boundaries of reality and fiction are crossed automatically, immersed in the material. highly political, highly important. smart as a whip.
just here to add what an authentic, darkly comedic and on point dude this Radu 'zizek's mannerisms say hello' Jude is.
"I have to say that I'm not Jewish despite my name. people in Germany don't get that."
the production history is something else: corrupt mafia politicians, a fake synopsis for a love story, scared police men and angry historians complaining they're not part of the film team. a lot of funk surrounding the film.
Nothing like a talky farce about nationalism and ethnic cleansing to prepare for the american election tomorrow.
"It's not anti-Romanian. It's facing our own history."
Radu Jude confronts the ugly history of antisemitism in Romania head-on with his wicked sense of humor here, and the end result is an equal parts engrossing and infuriating satire that exposes the danger of historical revisionism and blind nationalism. It might have suffered from its own anti-climatic ending, but the message is still loud and clear.
Via the vessel of a female director who has to fight censorship and patriotism to put on a show about the Romanian massacre of Jews, Jude has created a surreal experience that documents an equally surreal facet of Romania. For most of its runtime, I Do Not Care resolves around the clashing of ideologies, mostly…
One day I'm going to really love a Radu Jude film! All the ingredients are there; he's a pitiless observer of human nature at a time of political extremism, his character comedy is always on point, and he is interested in challenging the actual ideology of fascism rather than using it as a symbol of Bad Things, which is exactly what more directors should be doing now. Unfortunately he has that Romanian director's tic of letting every scenes lag on for longer than any other country's film-makers would, which sometimes hits a real payload of awkward comedy or discomfort. And sometimes it just goes on.
Worth sticking with for the final reel, though, which is merciless and includes a sly…
If I was creative enough and resourced enough to make films I would want to make films like this. Poetic-political-realism dripping in a thoughtful and moral (but not moralistic) philosophy is my bag.
The most exciting Romanians filmmaker today brutally challenges your understanding of history and morality
history has a way of slipping away into comfortable, easily digested chunks of information. a smooth, lean official version of events to be sent out, like a press release, or an art show. these things happened! oh, other things happened as well, but these are the important events, that changed the world. sure, there’s a few “all for the want of a horseshoe nail” moments, but people like history big, with very bad “bad guys” and really good “good guys” and clear endings.
why do you think WWII is eternally popular? evil murder-fascists drunk on conquering versus the civilized world. couldn’t be a neater story if you tried.
why do you think holocaust denial is on the rise in the…
Kostüm- und Historienfilme können eine absurde Angelegenheit sein. Bekannte Stars und Drehbücher werden in wallende Gewänder gestopft und schon halten viele das Ergebnis für Geschichte. In einer sympathischen Szene aus dem neuen Film des rumänischen Regisseurs Radu Jude lacht die Hauptfigur einen alten Historienschinken einfach aus. Gelacht wird darüber, dass es nichts zu lachen gibt, denn im Fernsehen wird gerade der ehemalige Diktator Ion Antonescu regelrecht heiliggesprochen. Also jener General, der im Jahr 1941 über seine Verbrechen während des Zweiten Weltkriegs den Satz sagte, den Judes Film nun als Titel trägt: „Mir ist es egal, wenn wir als Barbaren in die Geschichte eingehen“. Die hochintelligente, wütende und oft erstaunlich komische Tragikomödie spottet über die Illusion, man könnte mit Kameras einfach…