Dead Souls

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Documentary

2018, Movie, 8h 17min

In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.

Country: China

Director:

Wang Bing

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Critic Phil Hoad

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...a gruelling eight-hour catalogue of human suffering.

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Simon Abrams

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...a massive, imposing work of non-fiction filmmaking that demands attention despite also being the sort of artwork that doesn't really need any of our attention to be great.

Read full review at Roger Ebert

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In the Gobi Desert, the remains of countless prisoners lie abandoned, victims of the Chinese Communist Party's Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957. Survivors recount their stories, revealing the harsh realities of life in the reeducation camps and the tragic fate of those who never made it out. A powerful documentary that sheds light on a dark chapter in China's history.

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