Dead Souls (2018)

Original title

死靈魂

Directed by

Wang Bing

Genre

documentary film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

8h 17m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary collects firsthand testimony from survivors of Chinese reeducation labor camps from the 1950s. Filmed over many years, it shows more than 120 elderly survivors recounting their experiences across many parts of China.

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What happens

Dead Souls is a 2018 documentary film directed by Wang Bing and documents the testimony of survivors of the hard-labor camp in the Gobi Desert in Gansu, China. The film was shot from 2005 to 2017 and covers most of China's provinces, visiting more than 120 survivors of the Jiabiangou and Mingshui reeducation camps, which were set up by China's Communist regime in the late 1950s. The film premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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