2017 | Romania | Documentary

The Dead Nation

  • Romanian - 83 mins
  • Director | Radu Jude
  • Writer | Emil Dorian, Radu Jude
  • Producer | Ilinca Belciu, Ada Solomon

STATUS: Released

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The Dead Nation is a documentary-essay, which shows a stunning collection of photographs from a Romanian small town in the 1930’s and 1940’s. The soundtrack, composed mostly from excerpts taken from the diary of a Jewish doctor from the same era, shows us what the photographs do not: the rising of the anti-Semitism and eventually a harrowing depiction of the Romanian Holocaust, a topic which is not very talked about in the contemporary Romanian society.

Photography Romanian History Holocaust Anti-Semitism Diary