Dead Souls

Dec 14 2018 N/A 8h 15m
Documentary, History

In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.

Plot

A dozen aging survivors are interviewed from Jiabiangou, a complex of three work camps in Northwest China where supposed rightists were sent for re-education in the 1950s and 1960s under Mao Zedong.

Written by

Wang Bing

Directed by

Wang Bing

Cast

N/A

Crew

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Production Countries

France, Switzerland

Production Companies

Adok Films, IDFA Bertha Fund, Les Films d'ici, ARTE France Cinéma

Languages

Awards

2 wins & 2 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
441
Average Rating
8 out of 10
Metascore
89
Popularity
NA