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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 Jiabiangou and Mingshui 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.
DEAD SOULS
un film de Wang Bing - HistoireIn 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 Jiabiangou and Mingshui 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.
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 Jiabiangou and Mingshui 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.
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- Directed by
- Wang Bing
- Year
- 2018
- Genre
- Histoire
- Editing
- Catherine Rascon
- Photography
- Wang Bing, Shan Xiaohui & Song Yang
- Sound
- Raphaël Girardot
- Mixage
- Adrien Kessler
- Producer
- Les Films d’Ici (France), CS Productions & Adok Films (Switzerland)
- Executive producer
- Liang Ying & Lihong Kong
- Co-producers
- Arte France Cinéma
- Partners
- CNC, Région Île-de-France, RTS, Cinéforom & IDFA Bertha Fund
- Manager of production
- Martin Bertier
- Length
- 496'
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-FEDD-0001-1-0000-0000-Y
- International sales
- The Party Film Sales
- Special mention
- Sélection Officielle Cannes 2018
- France sales
- Les Acacias
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