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The Chinese Mayor (2014)

Datong
Running time: 89 min. | Genre: Documentaries
The Chinese Mayor

Synopsis

DATONG follows the life and work of a controversial Chinese Communist Mayor GENG YANBO to tell the story about how he takes a radical reform to demolish 140,000 households and relocate half a million people to give way to restoration of Ancient relic walls in order to adopt a clean economic growth from tourism and culture, which he believes will do good to DA TONG citizen in the long term. With two years in the footsteps of GENG, along with the changing ideology and confrontations from the public, the film is trying to draw a looming shape of future of China.

Nominations & Awards

Sundance Film Festival

  • Grand Jury Prize - Best Documentary (World Cinema) NOMINATED

Details

Original title

Datong

Director

Zhou Hao

Producer

ZhaoQi Films, NHK Enterprises, Cnex, Asian Network of Documentary, Asian Cinema Fund, IDFA Fund, BBC Storyville, Knowledge Network, DR, SVT

Running time

89 min.

Screenwriter

Zhao Qi, Hao Zhou

Cinematography

Hao Zhou, Tianhui Zhang

Year

2014

Country

China China

Ranking

Unopeliculas
9.0

 

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