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The Dead Nation(2017)
Status: Released
Date: 2017-08-25
58%
9 Votes
Time: 1h 23m
Overview:
A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romanian small town in the thirties and forties. The narration, composed mostly from excerpts taken from the diary of a Jewish doctor from the same era, tells the rising of the antisemitism and eventually a harrowing depiction of the Romanian Holocaust.
Languages: Romanian.
Countries:
Romania
ProductionCompanies:
Hi Film Productions
Fast Film
Movie: The Dead Nation
Top 1 Billed Cast
Radu Jude
Himself - Narrator
Video Trailer The Dead Nation
All 1 videos
THE DEAD NATION trailer | BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Trailer
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