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Rescue the Fire

Rescue the Fire

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 31, 2019

Runtime

1h 22m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

60%

Original Title

Rescue the Fire

Director

Jasco Viefhues

Description

Berlin, 1993. Photographer and artist Jürgen Baldiga battles HIV. In the 1990s, the AIDS epidemic is reaching a climax that no one had expected. The infected bodies and their stories disappear from the public eye, as though they'd never existed. Through the death of his friends and subsequently his own, Baldiga becomes a chronicler of his time: "I am taking a picture. I am photographing the world. I exist."