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How to Survive a Plague is a american film of genre Biography released in USA on 20 september 2012 with Larry Kramer

How to Survive a Plague (2012)

How to Survive a Plague
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Released in USA 20 september 2012
Length 1h49
OriginUSA
Genres Biography,    Documentary,    Historical
Rating75% 3.7912153.7912153.7912153.7912153.791215

How to Survive a Plague is a 2012 American documentary film about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and the efforts of ACT UP and TAG. It was directed by David France, a journalist who covered AIDS from its beginnings. For France it was his first film. He dedicated it to his partner Doug Gould, who died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1992. The documentary was produced using more than 700 hours of archived footage which included news coverage, interviews as well as film of demonstrations, meetings and conferences taken by ACT UP members themselves. France says they knew what they were doing was historic, and that many of them would die. The film, which opened in select theatres across the United States on September 21, 2012, also includes footage of a demonstration during mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1989.

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Le film traite des premières années de l'épidémie du SIDA, et des efforts d'Act up et de Treatment Action Group .

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Larry Kramer

(Himself)
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