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Prolific Romanian director Radu Jude’s drama “Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie vom intra ca barbari” [Eng. Title: I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians] throws the cat amongst the pigeons in his home country by highlighting the massacre of Jews in Odessa and surrounding towns in 1941 when Romania, then an ally of the Axis forces, occupied a region called Transnistria in what is part of modern Ukraine.
Young director Mariana (Ioana Iacob) is given the opportunity by a local Council to stage events from 1941 through street theatre as part of a community project. Mariana finds success in recruiting enthusiastic volunteers from among the general public. The Council helps her hire the necessary period accessories, and also allows her to borrow vintage military hardware from the city’s war museum. Mariana conducts further research on events of 1941.