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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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