COLECTIV

COLLECTIVE

By Alexander NANAU

CINETIC MEDIA - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2019

Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Sports Gazette as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians — and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2019
TIFF Docs
Venice - Biennale 2019
IDFA 2019
Sundance Film Festival 2020
Spotlight
CPH:DOX 2020
HIGHLIGHTS
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online) 2021
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • ROMANIA, LUXEMBOURG
    • Languages
    • ROMANIAN, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 109 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Alexander NANAU
    • Producer(s)
    • Alexander NANAU (Nanau Production), Bianca OANA (Nanau Production)
    • Synopsis
    • On October 30, 2015, a fire at the Bucharest club Colectiv killed 27 people and injured 180, leading to public protests that brought down the Romanian government. When an additional 37 people died in the hospital from infection, journalist Cătălin Tolontan and the reporters at Romania’s Sports Gazette newspaper exposed the unchecked corruption that sacrificed countless lives for the greed of a few.

      At the same time, others fought hard against the system of oppression strangling the nation, including several whistleblowers, a young bureaucrat who tried to reform the system despite entrenched opposition, and a survivor from the Colectiv fire who expressed her pain through art. With the feel of a real-life political thriller, Collective takes us inside the world of reporters and other brave Romanian citizens who confronted the failure of the state with the only weapon they had: the truth.