The Dead Nation

The Dead Nation

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The Dead Nation

2017

1h 23m

6.5(7 votes)

Documentary

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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.

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