Fengming: A Chinese Memoir

Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (2007)

和凤鸣

The film consists almost entirely of an interview with the elderly He Fengming, recounting her experiences in post-1949 China.

Date of release
2007-04-18
TMDB
7.8 / 10 (16)
Runtime
3h 6m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Wang Bing

Casting

Interesting facts

Fengming, a Chinese Memoir, also known as Chronicle of a Chinese Woman, is a 2007 Chinese documentary film directed by Wang Bing. The film consists almost entirely of an interview with the elderly He Fengming, recounting her experiences in post-1949 China.

Production

Wang Bing first met He in 1995 and interviewed her in the course of research for his second feature (after 2002's Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks). After receiving a commission from the Kunsten Festival des Arts, Wang decided to record He's story, resulting in a 50- and then a 130-minute film. After the Festival, Wang went back and conducted an additional interview, bringing the film to its final three-hour running time.

The full-length version premiered, out of competition, at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. It subsequently played the international festival circuit, winning the Grand Prize at the 2007 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.

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