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Collective is a good documentary about corruption, manslaughter, murder, bacteria, and poison in mid-2010s Romania.
Collective shouldn’t go unnoticed among last month’s Oscar nominees besides competing for both Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature, it was also the first Romanian film to be nominated for any Oscar at all. An international first among several, but it didn’t win, and an older South Korean actress and a Chinese-American director winning in top categories, even in a down year, drowned out any noise
Collective could’ve made in the two days or so when people cared about the Oscars this year (compare to 2020’s jubilant ceremony culminating in an historic win for Bong Joon-Ho and his
Power of Oscars keeps Romanian Collective tragedy in people s minds, says director
Reuters | Apr 15, 2021 10:34 PM EDT
Journalists Mirela Neag (L) and Catalin Tolontan are seen in a still (Photo : Magnolia Pictures/Handout via REUTERS)
Romanian director Alexander Nanau says a double Oscar nomination for his documentary Collective means a tragic 2015 nightclub fire and subsequent healthcare scandal at the heart of the film will not be forgotten .
Sixty-five people died after fireworks used during a concert at The Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest ignited non-fireproofed insulation foam, triggering a stampede.
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The film follows journalist Catalin Tolontan, whose investigations revealed badly burned victims who were taken to hospital and treated in improper conditions, with inadequate cleaning products linked to many of their deaths.
Concert goers were rocking out at a nightclub in Romania in 2015, when a heavy metal band called Goodbye to Gravity was onstage. The liquor was flowing, the music was blaring. Then someone set off some pyrotechnics, and a fire quickly spread.