Rent Collective (2019)
4.0 of 5 from 169 ratings
1h 49min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- 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.
- Actors:
- Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag, Catalin Tolontan, Tedy Ursuleanu, Vlad Voiculescu
- Directors:
- Alexander Nanau
- Producers:
- Alina David, Hanka Kastelicová, Bernard Michaux, Alexander Nanau, Bianca Oana
- Writers:
- Alexander Nanau, Antoaneta Opris
- Aka:
- Colectiv
- Studio:
- Dogwoof
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's Euro 24 Film Festival, Films & TV by topic
- Countries:
- Romania
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 18/01/2021
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
- Languages:
- Romanian Dolby Digital 2.0, Romanian Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Ida Screening Series: 'Collective' Q&A with Director Alexander Nanau
- Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (1) of Collective
The Cure Was Worse Than the Disease - Collective review by griggs
Just watched it, but I can already see myself thinking about this one for days to come. Not an easy watch, but a necessary one.
What gets me about Collective is the access — you're not watching a tidy reconstruction, you're in the room as the cover-up comes apart in real time. Catalin Tolontan and his team never get the hero treatment either; they're just people doing a job nobody else wanted. The hospital footage is the gut-punch here. Some images just don't leave once they're in.
It's smart about structure too — halfway through, the focus shifts from the journalists to the new health minister, and suddenly you're watching good intentions try to push back a system this rotten. It doesn't go well.
If there's a catch, it's that the minister section loses some of the first half's urgency — admin taking over from momentum. And the whole thing tips toward fatalism by the end. Earned, but it sits with you.
Not a film that leaves you hopeful. Just one that leaves you informed, which might be worse.
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