A Film Is Stopped

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A Film Is Stopped

The one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It follows a chaotic period in November of 1993, when production suddenly halted on Zhang Yuan's TV film adaptation of a popular novel, Chicken Feathers, after the Chinese Film Bureau announced that Zhang could no longer direct the film due to submitting his previous independent feature, 1992's Beijing Bastards, to a film festival in Japan without receiving the proper authorization to do so. Ning's documentary features anguished meetings between the Chicken Feather's production crew as they debate replacing Zhang with another director, along with testimonials on the state of censorship in Chinese independent cinema of the early '90s from Wu Wenguang, Tang Danian, He Jianjun, Cui Jian, and others.

Original Title

停机

Release Date

1994-01-01

Year

1994

Duration

55m

Status

Released

Score

0.00

Cast

Zhang Yuan

Zhang Yuan

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Tang Danian

Tang Danian

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Wu Wenguang

Wu Wenguang

self

Dai Ning

Dai Ning

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Cui Jian

Cui Jian

self

He Jianjun

He Jianjun

self

Chen Daoming

Chen Daoming

self

Liu Zhenyun

Liu Zhenyun

self

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Lin Xudong

self

Mou Sen

Mou Sen

self