Sanxia haoren (2006)

Director:

Zhang Ke Jia

Writers:

Zhang Ke Jia (screenplay) and
Na Guan (writer)

Release Date:

16 November 2006 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Citizens return to a flooded town to salvage what they can and say good-bye to things they lost.

Plot Keywords:

Cellular Phone | Evacuation | Cellphone | Search For Family | Destruction

Awards:

6 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Tao Zhao	...	Shen Hong
Sanming Han	...	Han Sanming
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Zhubin Li
Hong Wei Wang
Haiyu Xiang
Lin Zhou

Also Known As:

Still Life (International: English title) (USA) (new title)

Runtime:

111 min

Country:

China | Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:PG | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade) | Brazil:12 | South Korea:12

Filming Locations:

Fengjie, China

Company:

Shanghai Film Studios

Trivia:

Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2007 (#02, tied with "Inland Empire" and "Death Proof").

The China You Never See

I've seen lots of presentations by businesspeople and academics about Chinese industry, development, social problems, politics, progress, environmental disasters, etc. etc. I've never seen anything like this. It's China on the ground - actually a town about to be submerged by the Three Gorgest Dam project. The title translation of "Three Gorges Good People" is right - these are ordinary folks who endure, persist, help each other out, etc. in a mixed landscape of natural beauty, building, poverty, and destruction that has to be seen to be understood. The story of the dam shapes everybody's life without actually determining or washing them out. Definitely try to see this if you have any interest at all in China today.