The Discovery television station will broadcast, on Sunday, the “collective” documentary, directed by Alexander Nanau, which presents key moments that define the fire in the Bucharest club with the same name, as a result of which 64 people lost their lives.
Almost 9 years after the events, the “collective” documentary will be broadcast. Archive photo
Almost 9 years after the fire that broke out on October 30, 2015, on Halloween night, in the Colectiv club, the film is scheduled for Sunday, October 27, from 9:00 p.m., on Discovery, but it can also be viewed on the Max streaming platform (formerly HBO Max).
The film focuses on the events that took place in the first year, following the statements of the witnesses, the families of the victims, the authorities, but also the journalists’ investigations regarding the main people responsible for the fire in which 64 young people lost their lives, according to the media page.
“It’s a movie about system versus peopleabout truth versus manipulation, about self-interest versus public interest, about individual courage and responsibility,” writes in the official description of the film.
Also presented are discussions with various people who agreed to appear in the premiere on the film, as well as moments from the investigation.
“A quagmire of corruption, indifference and greed, without the cinematic achievement degenerating into the heroism of investigative journalism”, characterizes the Romanian documentary in the foreign press after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 2019.
Among the protagonists you can recognize Narcis Hogea, the father of Alex Hogea, one of the victims of the Colectiv fire, Cătălin Tolontan, Mirela Neag and Răzvan Luțac, the team of investigative journalists from Gazeta Sporturilor, Camelia Roiu, a doctor at the Emergency Clinical Hospital Plastic, Repair and Burn Surgery from the Capital, Mariana Oprea (Tedy), one of the survivors of the fire, and Vlad Voiculescu, former Minister of Health.
The non-conventional “collective” documentary, for which filming was done for 14 months, and in another 18 months for editing, was awarded the Best Documentary in the International Competition of the Zurich Film Festival, the Special Prize of the Jury at Roche-sur-Yon (France) and the Audience Award for international film in Budapest.