Shanghai: The Roaring 20's
Shanghai in the 30s: money rules in this city open to all adventures and whose reputation attracts all the bold adventurers of the world. Albert Londres, one of the most famous journalists of the time, who is in Shanghai in 1924 reports to his newspaper. In 1932, the city is plunged into an armed conflict triggered by Japan, served as a curtain raiser for a new dispensation. Following the lashing rise of Du Yuesheng in Shanghai, the godfather of the Green Gang, we embark on an exploration of the period when bankers and drug traffickers, revolutionaries and nationalists made history. Unpublished Chinese archive materials, private archives, old feature films, period newspapers, police reports, diplomatic correspondence, journalism by Albert Londres and explorations of present-day Shanghai, sketch the portrait of a world that continues to fascinate the West.
Year: 2009
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Idéale Audience, ARTE
Director: Olivier Horn, Anne Riegel
Cast: Serge Avédikian, Dominique Reymond
Crew: Olivier Horn (Director), Anne Riegel (Director), Anne Riegel (Editor), Olivier Horn (Cinematography)
Runtime: 90 minutes
Release: Nov 25, 2009
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Popularity: 1
Country: France
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Revenue: 0
Keyword : historical reenactment
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