Dead Souls (2018)
8h 17m
Running Time
October 24, 2018Release Date
Dead Souls (2018)
8h 17m
Running Time
October 24, 2018Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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SubsCurrently Dead Souls is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: OVID
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Details.
Release DateOctober 24, 2018
Original Name死靈魂
StatusReleased
Running Time8h 17m
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Wiki.
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. Shot from 2005 to 2017, the film covers most of China's provinces with visits to more than 120 survivors of the Jiabiangou and Mingshui reeducation camps set up by China's Communist regime in the late 1950s. It made its world premiere at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.