Story
At the end of the 1990s, Chen Shengli was an infamous criminal in a mining town in the North-East of China. After 10 years in prison, he is released into a world that seems to have no use for people like him. All the same, Shengli wants to get a foothold in life as a normal citizen – as head of a kindergarten. But, while good/bad Uncle Chen is quickly popular with the children, his former business associates still have a few scores to settle. Zhang Meng has made a bitter-sweet, laconic drama about the wish for a new start and the shadows of the past against the backdrop of a country changing at breakneck pace. In competition for the Hamburg Film Critic Award.
Director
Zhang Meng (*1975) trained in the theatre in Beijing before writing screenplays for several years. His international breakthrough as a director came with The Piano in a Factory (FilmFest Hamburg 2011). Uncle Victory is his third feature film.Info
Uncle Victory
Fiction Feature
Mandarin
Asia Express//FF2014
People's Republic of China
2014
105 min
OV with English subtitles
Zhang Meng
Ya Liu, Meng Zhang
Haibo Huang, Xinyi Zhang, Xue Guo, Yu Tian
Michael Ren
Shu Chou
Lingling Qian
Wenbo Hou, Sa Wang
Star Alliance Movies (HK) Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Zhang Meng Film Studio
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