The Dead Nation

Aug 25 2017 Not Rated 1h 23m
Documentary, History, War

A documentary-essay which shows Costica 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.

Plot

"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.

Written by

Emil Dorian, Radu Jude

Directed by

Radu Jude

Cast

Radu Jude

Crew

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Production Countries

Romania

Production Companies

Hi Film Productions

Languages

Româna

Awards

1 win & 5 nominations

Trailers
THE DEAD NATION trailer | BFI London Film Festival 2017
Scores
# of Votes
451
Average Rating
6.9 out of 10
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Popularity
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