Mr. Zhang Believes
Zhang Xianchi is a man thrown into the Cultural Revolution and its afterimage, plunged into the ideological deadlocks of the era and suffering its consequences beyond it. Born into a family that supports the nationalist Kuomintang, Zhang eventually became a leftist and joined the Communist Party. But his family’s background eventually catches up with him, and in a series of bureaucratic measures, he is labelled as a Rightist, leading to a slew of irrational yet life-affecting consequences. His story is told through an exhilarating hybrid of forms, blending documentary-styled interviews and spectral theatrical displays within an ever-mutating studio-space. Hypnagogic in its imagery and ironic in attitude, Mr. Zhang Believes is a tour-de-force treatise of a man caught within dogmatic political maneuverings, which it critiques indirectly with creative and stoic fervour.
Year: 2015
Genre: History, Documentary, Drama
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Director: Qiu Jiongjiong
Cast: Yang Cheng, Zhang Tuoyu, Yi Sicheng
Runtime: 136 minutes
Release: Aug 10, 2015
IMDb: 8.20/10 by 5 users
Popularity: 0
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Language: 普通话
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : avant-garde
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