Hard to Believe

Nov 21, 2016

0h 56m

★ 7.5

How Doctors Became Murderers and How We Turned a Blind Eye

Overview

A documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response - or lack of it - around the world. It's happened before: governments killing their own citizens for their political or spiritual beliefs. But it’s never happened like this. It’s happened so often that the world doesn’t always pay attention.

Genres

Documentary

Mystery

Crime

Production Companies

Swoop Films

Stone Soup Productions

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Cast

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Ethan Gutmann

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Anthony Archer

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David Matas

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Matthew Robertson

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Adnan Sharif

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Torsten Trey

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Xiaodan Wang

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Jacob Lavee

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Enver Tohti

Gurwinder comes from Punjab, he’s been working for years as a farm hand in Agro Pontino, not far from Rome. Since he first came in Italy, he’s been living with the rest of the Sikh community in Latina province. Hardeep is also Indian, but her stress is Roman, and she works as a cultural mediator. She, born and raised in Italy, is trying to free herself from the memories of a family that emigrated in another age, while he is forced, against his faith, to take methamphetamine and doping to bear the heavy work pace, to be able to send money in India.

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