When fire erupted at the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest, Romania in 2015, the blaze killed 26 people on the spot. But the worst, in many respects, was yet to come.One after another, survivors dispatched to hospital burn units began to succumb to infection, driving up the toll over a period of months to 38 more dead.
Alexander Nanau’s documentary Collective, nominated this week for a Film Independent Spirit Award, reveals how investigative reporters helped expose the truth about why so many lives were lost in the fire’s aftermath.“There was one whistleblower, a doctor that had the courage to open up to journalists about the real reasons for the death of the burn victims in Romanian hospitals,” Nanau explains. “From one thing to another,
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