Mr. Zhang Believes (2015)

  • NR
  • 08/10/2015 (CH)
  • History, Documentary, Drama
  • 2h 16m

Overview

Zhang Xianchi is a man thrown into the Cultural Revolution and its afterimage, plunged into the ideological deadlocks of the era and suffering its consequences beyond it. Born into a family that supports the nationalist Kuomintang, Zhang eventually became a leftist and joined the Communist Party. But his family’s background eventually catches up with him, and in a series of bureaucratic measures, he is labelled as a Rightist, leading to a slew of irrational yet life-affecting consequences. His story is told through an exhilarating hybrid of forms, blending documentary-styled interviews and spectral theatrical displays within an ever-mutating studio-space. Hypnagogic in its imagery and ironic in attitude, Mr. Zhang Believes is a tour-de-force treatise of a man caught within dogmatic political maneuverings, which it critiques indirectly with creative and stoic fervour.

Qiu Jiongjiong

Director

Cast

Yang Cheng's headshot

Yang Cheng

Zhang Tuoyu's headshot

Zhang Tuoyu

Yi Sicheng's headshot

Yi Sicheng

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