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Dead Souls
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Dead Souls

Oct 24, 2018
8h 17m
★ 7.3

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Les Films d'Ici
IDFA Bertha Fund
Adok Films
ARTE France Cinéma

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