Summaries

Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.

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.—Magnolia Pictures

A national tragedy gives way to outrage when fatalities from a nightclub fire continue to add up, and a crack team of investigative journalists connect the mystery to a head-spinning case of graft and disregard for public safety. A corrupt politician is replaced by a reformer with a history in patient advocacy, but can he withstand the backlash when he doesn't know how widespread the rot has set in?

Details

Keywords
  • corruption
  • politics
  • journalism
  • investigative journalism
  • night club fire
Genres
  • Crime
  • Documentary
Release date Feb 27, 2020
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated
Countries of origin Germany Luxembourg Romania
Language English Romanian
Filming locations Bucharest, Romania
Production companies Samsa Film HBO Europe Alexander Nanau Production

Box office

Gross worldwide $200041

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 49m
Color Color
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

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