Collective

“Collective is eye-opening, elegiac, and essential. It suggests, or at least hopes, that the only thing more powerful than political corruption is the collective voice of those trying to stop it.”
– Baltimore Magazine

In 2015, a fire at Bucharest’s Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. One revelation leads to another as the journalists start to uncover vast health care fraud. When a new health minister is appointed, he offers unprecedented access to his efforts to reform the corrupt system but also to the obstacles he faces. Following journalists, whistle-blowers, burn victims, and government officials, Collective is an uncompromising look at the impact of investigative journalism at its best.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Alexander Nanau is a German/Romanian filmmaker born in Bucharest, Romania in 1979. He studied Film Direction at the DFFB Filmschool in Berlin. His first feature documentary Peter Zadek inszeniert Peer Gynt (2006) was released 2006 in Germany and Austria.

REVIEWS

• It plays like a political thriller. But it’s also a deeply moving testament to both the power and the necessity of investigative journalism… – Time Magazine
• ‘Collective’: A Tragedy, a Cover-Up, an Expose — and the Best Documentary of the Year – RollingStone
• It sketches out an honest, affecting, somewhat old-fashioned utopian example of what it takes to make the world better, or at least a little less awful. – The New York Times