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The Dead Nation
The Dead Nation
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THE DEAD NATION

Țara moartă

Directed by Radu Jude
Romania, 2017
Documentary

Synopsis

This documentary-essay excavates Costică Axinte’s stunning collection of photographs from a small Romanian town in the 1930-40s. A voice-over reads from the diary of a Jewish doctor, depicting what the photographs don’t: the rising of antisemitism and the persecution of Jews in Romania.

Synopsis

This documentary-essay excavates Costică Axinte’s stunning collection of photographs from a small Romanian town in the 1930-40s. A voice-over reads from the diary of a Jewish doctor, depicting what the photographs don’t: the rising of antisemitism and the persecution of Jews in Romania.