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Collective (2019) on Netflix

NR20191h 49mCrimeDocumentary

A fire at a Bucharest club kills 27 people and injures 180. When burn victims die in hospitals, Cătălin Tolontan and reporters at Gazeta Sporturilor investigate the diluted disinfectants.

  • Netflix4.5/5
  • IMDb8.1/1014,356 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes99%

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Plot summary

On October 30, 2015, pyrotechnics during a concert by the band Goodbye to Gravity set the Colectiv club in Bucharest on fire, killing 27 people and injuring 180. In the months that follow, more victims die in public hospitals. Sources tell reporters at the newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor that the disinfectants the hospitals use have been diluted, and tests confirm it. The paper publishes its findings about the supplier, Hexi Pharma, which falsified documentation for its products, and about the government's failure to check the company. The health minister, Patriciu Achimaș-Cadariu, orders an investigation, and when Cătălin Tolontan of Gazeta discusses it on television, the ministry insists its own tests show the solutions are 95 percent effective.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Collective (2019)

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  • At the 93rd Academy Awards, Collective received two nominations, becoming the first Romanian film to be nominated for an Academy Award and only the second film ever nominated for both Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature Film, after North Macedonia's Honeyland.
  • Collective won Best European Documentary at the 33rd European Film Awards, becoming the first Romanian film ever to win that prize.

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