Black Snow ( Ben ming nian )

Black Snow (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Ben ming nian
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Chinese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
99 min + 32 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:
China ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Fei Xie

Written By:
Heng Liu

Actors:
Hongxiang Cai ..... Cui Yongli
Wen Jiang
Cheng Lin
Hong Yue

Synopsis:

Winner of the Silver Bear in Berlin in 1990, Xei Fei's film is a politically daring tale of urban alienation and despair. A former prisoner played by the great Chinese actor Jiang Wen, arrives back in his native Beijing to find that he has no family or prospects or friends, just his underworld contacts trying to drag him back into a life of crime... Taking the classic crime thriller 'hook' - ex-con struggling to go straight - Black Snow emerges as a powerful study of displacement. It takes place at the shattering juncture of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and vividly captures the social impact of potential political change at that time.

A semi-literate who was deprived of schooling during the Cultural Revolution, Li Huiquan, is released from labor camp. But his attempts to make good are continually thwarted. His street stall selling clothes puts him on the fringe of the black market, and he soon gets lured back into his old neighbourhood gangs. His disenchanted comrades include a nightclub chanteuse as well as an escaped convict.

Centres around the story of an ex convict who is ready to settle into life in a city where values are no longer the ones that he remembers.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 01 April, 2010.

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