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Crows & Sparrows
(VHS, 1996)
Leading Role: Zhao Dan
Director: Zheng Junli
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Format: VHS
Aug 1996
Not Rated
Recording Mode: (unknown)
108 min.
B&W
Extra Info: Subtitled English
UPC: 759731105132 |
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Movie Description
A Shanghai landlord hoping to sell his boarding house and flee to Taiwan before the Communist invasion battles against his tenants, who don't want to be evicted. This neo-realist classic completed just prior to the Communist Revolution was approved for production when the censors were given a false script, while the filmmakers hid the actual screenplay.
Synopsis
This controversial film garnered a stupendous reputation as a Neo-Realist work as well as a significant cultural artifact in China.
Fearing a radical change in the political landscape, a miserly owner of a crowded boarding house puts his property up for sale in Shanghai just prior to the Communist Revolution. He, however, has not anticipated the proletarian solidarity that his tenants plan to demonstrate.
A cross-section of Chinese workers comprise the tenant group: students, a teacher and his family, a salesman, and a clerk. They rely on one another to keep their homes and buy themselves time until the Red Army arrives to quash any capitalist refugees who have not already fled for Taiwan.
If the tenants can just stick together, they will achieve their goal.
Film Notes
In order to receive official approval to make this film, director Zheng Junli deceived the Chinese censors by giving them an innocuous script he had no intention of shooting. He kept the real screenplay hidden in the ceiling of the film studio and updated it daily to reflect current events.
Director Zheng Junli died in prison in 1969, a victim of the Cultural Revolution.
Copyright 1992 International Film Circuit Inc.
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