When Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau (“Toto and Her Sisters”) screened his latest observational documentary “Collective” to rave reviews at the Venice, Toronto and Sundance festivals, he had no idea that his health system exposé would prove to be all-too predictive of a world not prepared to cope with a rampaging virus pandemic. As the virus moved rapidly through China, Europe and the Americas, leaving thousands of victims in its wake, Nanau watched with horror as the terrible patterns revealed in Romania repeated over and over again.
Nanau’s movie, funded by HBO Europe, follows a team of crack investigative journalists at sports daily Gazeta Sporturilor, who uncover the reasons why 37 burn victims died after a traumatic fire killed 27 people and injured another 180 on October 30, 2015 at the Bucharest nightclub Colectiv. Gazeta Sporturilor reporter Catalin Tolontan, the movie’s hero, stands up to the Romanian government and its incompetent health ministers by...
Nanau’s movie, funded by HBO Europe, follows a team of crack investigative journalists at sports daily Gazeta Sporturilor, who uncover the reasons why 37 burn victims died after a traumatic fire killed 27 people and injured another 180 on October 30, 2015 at the Bucharest nightclub Colectiv. Gazeta Sporturilor reporter Catalin Tolontan, the movie’s hero, stands up to the Romanian government and its incompetent health ministers by...
- 4/1/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
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