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A Film Is Stopped

Name: A Film Is Stopped
Released: 1994-01-01
Duration: 55 min
Cast: Zhang Yuan, Tang Danian, Wu Wenguang, Dai Ning, Cui Jian

Overview

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.

RATING

0.0

DIRECTOR

Dai Ning

COUNTRY

RELEASE DATE

1994

TIME

55m

GENRE

Movie Trailer