A documentary-essay showcasing stunning 1930s-40s photographs of a Romanian town, paired with a soundtrack featuring excerpts from a Jewish doctor's diary, revealing the rise of anti-Semitism and the Romanian Holocaust.
The Dead Nation
The film juxtaposes the wealth of information provided by a vast collection of recently unearthed glass-plate photographs from the 1930s and 1940s, offering a nuanced portrayal of Romania, with the secrets and silences deliberately omitted from these images.
