The City of the Dead (2011)
- Original title
- A Cidade dos Mortos
- Directed by
- Sérgio Tréfaut
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Portugal
- Runtime
- 1h 02m
- Rating
- 5.6 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary examines life in Cairo's vast historic cemetery, where hundreds of thousands of people live among the graves. It shows their daily routines and the unusual mixing of the living and the dead.
observationalcontemplativeeverydayquietintimateslow-pacedgrounded
What happens
A Cidade dos Mortos (Portugiesisch für: Die Stadt der Toten; englisch: The City of the Dead) ist ein Dokumentarfilm des portugiesisch-französischen Regisseurs Sérgio Tréfaut aus dem Jahr 2009 über die Stadt der Toten in der ägyptischen Hauptstadt Kairo. Es ist vermutlich der größte Friedhof der Welt, und es leben einige Hunderttausende, möglicherweise bis zu einer Million Menschen zwischen den Toten dort. Der Film erschien in arabischem Originalton mit portugiesischen Untertiteln. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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