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GRAMNet Film Series
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The Dead Nation
Documentary: Romania (2017) | Director: Radu Jude | Running Time: 83 mins | Romanian with English Subtitles
In observance of Holocaust Memorial Day
A film constructed using the opposition of what a huge collection of recently discovered glass-plate photographs from the 30’s and 40’s tell us about Romania and what they do not show.
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.