畫面來自攝影師哥斯提卡厄辛特的照相館,是羅馬尼亞小鎮攝於1937 至1946 年間的珍貴照片。聲音則來自一名猶太裔醫生同期的日記,記下當年反猶太主義抬頭, 羅馬尼亞的大屠殺歷史,並穿插那時候的政府宣傳片聲帶。雷杜祖迪繼《押奴記》(39 屆)及《少年詩人的心疤》 (41 屆)後,轉拍非劇情片,同樣充滿震憾力。聲音與畫面,明明出自同一時空,卻彷彿兩個平行宇宙,猶太人面對的苦難命運,與羅馬尼亞小鎮的生活面貌,看似割裂分離,卻又互相對照,彼此補足。"The Dead Nation" is a documentary-essay, which shows a stunning collection of photographs from a Romanian small town in the 1930's and 1940's. The soundtrack, composed mostly from excerpts taken from the diary of a Jewish doctor from the same era, shows us what the photographs do not: the rising of the anti-Semitism and eventually a harrowing depiction of the Romanian Holocaust, a topic which is not very talked about in the contemporary Romanian society.
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