For its 36th edition, FIDMarseille remains true to its mission: to spotlight independent cinema that is attentive to the echoes of the contemporary world and to the stories that reveal its fractures, both intimate and collective.

Țara moartă, The Dead Nation

Radu Jude

Romania, 2017, Black and white, 83’

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A collection of photographs of everyday life in a Romanian village in the 1930s and 1940s. In voice-over, the diary of a Jewish doctor reveals what the images do not: the rise of anti-Semitism and the persecution of Jews in the Romanian countryside.

In the presence of the filmmaker, as part of the programme in connection with the Rencontres d’Arles.

Technical sheet

  • Script:
    Radu Jude, Emil Dorian
  • Editing:
    Cătălin Cristuțiu
  • Sound:
    Dana Bunescu
  • Production:
    Ada Solomon (HiFilm Productions)
  • Contact:
    Anja Duić

Filmography

  • Radu Jude

    • The Tube with a Hat, 2006
    • In the Morning, 2007
    • Alexandra, 2007
    • The Happiest Girl in the World, 2009
    • A Film for Friends, 2011
    • Everybody in Our Family, 2012
    • Shadow of a Cloud, 2013
    • It Can Pass through the Wall, 2014
    • Aferim!, 2015
    • Scarred Hearts, 2016
    • The Dead Nation, 2017
    • I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, 2018
    • The Marshal’s Two Executions, 2018
    • Uppercase Print, 2020
    • The Exit of the Trains, 2020
    • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, 2021
    • Caricaturana, 2021
    • Plastic Semiotic, 2021
    • The Potemkinists, 2022
    • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, 2023
    • Eight Postcards from Utopia, 2024
    • Sleep #2, 2024
    • Kontinental '25, 2025