The Exit of the Trains

On June 29, 1941, the Jewish residents of the city of Iasi were rounded up and beaten. Shops and homes were looted. Most of the men were shot or crowded onto trains, where they later died of asphyxiation. While Germans took part in the pogrom, the majority of the perpetrators were Romanian policemen, military officers, and civilians. How can a film deal with this crime? Through repetition, accumulation, and variation, the film makes the scale of the atrocity tangible, allows nuances to emerge, and gives the number of victims—13,000—a concrete form.

RO, 2020, 175 min.; ro / en sub / sk tit