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The Business

Director Alexander Nanau on the Romanian documentary ‘Collective’

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Romanian movie “Collective” is in Oscar contention for both Best International Film and Best Documentary. Directed by Alexander Nanau, “Collective” follows a group of sports reporters in Bucharest who uncovered a massive scandal in Romanian hospitals that led to dozens of needless deaths.

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters and this is the business.

0:05.0

The documentary collective follows a group of journalists in Bucharest who uncovered a massive scandal in Romanian hospitals that led to dozens of needless deaths.

0:14.0

These were not reporters who normally covered healthcare or government, but rather sports.

0:20.0

You know, doctors and healthcare officials that thought they are, you know, the smartest guys in the country,

0:25.6

thought that they are just fortunate, you know, asking some stupid questions and they will go away.

0:32.6

The journalist did not go away and neither did the filmmaker who followed them.

0:36.6

Alexander Nanao tells us about convincing the reporters to let him film them

0:41.4

and learning that the government tapped his phone while he was making the movie.

0:45.9

And he describes watching the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol from Bucharest.

0:51.0

But first, we banter.

0:52.7

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

1:01.3

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So Netflix

1:06.6

hit 200 million, the magic number, I mean, a magic number, although it really didn't land with

1:12.3

such a bang because everybody is now used to Netflix being so dominant. The pandemic certainly

1:17.5

has helped with that. But that is a big number. And they are now telling us that they made so much

1:22.8

money. They have between 15 and 16 billion dollars in debt, but they say they're not going to borrow money

1:28.4

anymore because they're making enough money to not only survive and make crazy amounts of new

1:34.3

programming, but even to start chipping away at that debt. So that is a good day for Netflix.

1:40.3

Yeah, and that's the big takeaway. I mean, the $200 million was sort of a foregone conclusion.

1:45.0

But from the beginning, you know, a lot of commentators, including on this show,

1:49.6

we have questioned the debt problem at Netflix, where they've funded this astronomical run-up

1:56.4

and content and subscribers by borrowing money to produce the shows and the movies. And the question was,

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