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Once Upon a Time Proletarian - 12 Tales of A Country

OT: Once Upon a Time Proletarian - 12 Tales of A Country

Xiaolu Guo // People's Republic of China, 2009
Documentary Feature // FF2009

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Story

A subjective anatomy of contemporary, post-Marxist China. Dark, poetic and existentialist images show people from various social classes struggling for survival in modern Chinese society. A farmer loses his land, a weapons-factory labourer wishes Mao were still alive to save the country and young artists dream of fame and success in the West. Director Xiaolu Guo’s previous feature film “She, a Chinese” (2008) is also being shown at FILMFEST HAMBURG, as part of the Nordlichter programme.

Director

Xiaolu Guo (*1973) won The Golden Leopard in Locarno with her first feature She, a Chinese (2009). Ufo in Her Eyes ist an adaption of her own novel of the same title.

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Once Upon a Time Proletarian - 12 Tales of A Country

Documentary Feature

Chinese

Agenda 09//FF2009


People's Republic of China

2009

76 min

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Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo, Pamela Casey

Zhuzi X Vian

Philippe Ciompi, Arthur de Lipowski

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