Dead Souls

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

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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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Dead Souls was released in theaters on December 14, 2018.