Farewell, Beijing

Farewell, Beijing (2009)

再见北京

Gong Fenghai, an educated urban youth from Beijing and also a fervent supporter of Mao Zedong decided to heed Chairman Mao's call to go to the rural area of Yanan during the Cultural Revolution. Forty years later, 60 year-old Gong wants to return to Beijing and retire there. What greets him is a hometown that is at once familiar and yet strangely distant....

Date of release
2009-10-15
Genres
Documentary
Director
Tianhui Zhang

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