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

Carmel International Competition

"Startling —a provocative, sarcastic, and momentous act of interrogation between the past and the present"

Variety
  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Radu Jude
  • Romania, Czech Republic, France, Bulgaria, Germany 2018
  • 140 minutes
  • Romanian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Mariana, an idealistic theater director, is commissioned by the city council to stage a grand outdoor historical pageant. She is expected to celebrate the Romanian victory on the Eastern Front but Mariana has other plans - she   bases the pageant on a notorious wartime massacre.

Winner of the Best Film Award at the Karlovy Vary Festival, Radu Jude’s follow-up to ’Aferim!’ is another powerful satirical critique of his homeland


  • Director Radu Jude
  • Production Ada Solomon
  • Script Radu Jude
  • Cinematography Marius Panduru
  • Editing Cătălin Cristuțiu
  • Festivals Karlovy Vary (Best Film Award), Toronto
  • Actors Ioana Iacob, Alexandru Dabija, Alex Bogdan, Ilinca Manolache, Serban Pavlu
  • Source Beta Cinema, Munich