Dead Souls
2018
INTERNATIONAL INVITATION
Wang Bing | France, Switzerland | 2018 | Documentary | Color | DCP | 507 min (KN,E)
SYNOPSIS
In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in
the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as “ultra-rightists” in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the Jiabiangou and Mingshui reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.
DIRECTOR

Wang Bing
STAFF
Director WANG BING
Producer SERGE LALOU, CAMILLE LAEMLÉ, LOUISE PRINCE, WANG BING
Co-Producer JOSÉ MICHEL BUHLER, WANG YANG
Production by LES FILMS D’ICI, CS PRODUCTIONS
In Corporation with ADOK FILMS, ARTE FRANCE CINÉMA
With the Participation of ARTE FRANCE, CENTRE NATIONAL DU CINÉMA ET DE L’IMAGE ANIMÉE, CINÉFOROM
With the Support of LA LOTERIE ROMANDE, LA RÉGION ÎLE-DE-FRANCE, IDFA BERTHA FUND
Line Producer China LIANG YING
Production Managers MARTIN BERTIER, WANG DI, LI ZHE
Cinematographer WANG BING
Additional Camera SHAN XIAOHUI, SONG YANG, LIU XIANHUI
Editor CATHERINE RASCON
Assistant Editor XU BINGYUAN
Sound RAPHAËL GIRARDOT, ADRIEN KESSLER
Translation & French Adaption PASCALE WEI-GUINOT
Artistic Advisor ZHU ZHU, WU SHENFANG