Director: Peng Tao
Script.: Peng Tao
Cinema: Huang Yi
Edit: Peng Tao
Sound: Zheng Wu
Cast: Gao Huan-Bing, Han Dequn, Hong Qifa, Xu Zelin, Zeng Xiao-Rong, Zhao Hui-Hui
Production: New Youth Independant Film Studio
Distribution:
Zootrope Films
8, rue Lemercier
75017 PARIS
Phone: +33(0)1 53 20 48 60
Fax: +33(0)1 53 20 00 44
[email protected]
Year: 2007
Beta, Color, 99 min, Mandarin Chinese with French subtitles
A couple buys an eleven-year-old handicapped girl whose mother died and whose alcoholic father intends to use for begging.
“With this film I wanted to show the very special way of life lead by Chinese at the bottom of the social scale. I focused on beggars, a specific marginal group, in order to show what makes them different. In today society to earn a maximum of money is the target of the modern man’s activity. To achieve this aim men are ready to renounce their dignity, rights and most elementary humanity. Be that as at it may, our hopes, even the most tenuous ones, will never be swept away by a reality however cruel it may be, and the heavy burden of life will not be able to overshadow the genuine ray of light emanating from humanity [...] This is a “documentary-drama” film where all the actors are non professional and never acted before.” Peng Tao
