880-01 Er shi si cheng ji [videorecording] / Beijing xi he xing hui chu pin ; Shang ying ji tuan, Shanghai dian ying zhi pian chang, Hua run (ji tuan) you xian gong si ; dao yan Jia Zhangke = 24 city / Xstream Pictures presents ; Shanghai Film Group Corporation, China Resources (Holdings) Co., Ltd ; director Jia Zhangke.
880-02 Chen Chong = Joan Chen, Lü Liping, Zhao Tao, Chen Jianbin. Special features: "Cry me a river": short film by Jia Zhang-ke; film critic Scott Foundas interviews Jia Zhang-ke; theatrical trailer; essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Summary:
A documentary film on the state-owned Factory 420, also called as the Chengdu Engine Group, which was founded in 1958 to produce aviation engines. Now abandoned, the fatory is sold for millions to real estate developers to be transformed into a complex of luxury apartment blocks called 24 City. The film revolves around eight dramatic interviews that present three generations with ties to the factory: the first factory workers, more recent employees, and the children of former laborers. Woven into this oral history are three fictional monologues delivered by actors.
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