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
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.
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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