Speechless

Speechless (2013)

無言

Hong Kong /// Un joven occidental es encontrado desnudo a la orilla de un río en un lugar remoto del sur de China. Durante su convalecencia en el hospital permanece mudo, acosado por pesadillas y escenas del pasado. A pesar de haber perdido el habla, el misterioso personaje es capaz, todavía, de crear un lazo emocional con Jiang, el ordenanza del hospital, quien decide ayudarle cuando está a punto de ser trasladado a un manicomio y lo envía al pueblo de su tío, donde, accidentalmente, descubre la razón de su silencio.

Fecha de estreno
2013-05-25
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (18)
Duración
1 h 32 min
Géneros
Drama, Romance
Director
Simon Chung

Reparto

Curiosidades

Speechless is a 2012 drama film directed by Simon Chung, about a mute Frenchman who is found naked by the banks of a river in Wuhan in mainland China. He is rescued and sent to a local hospital where he is treated by a nurse who cares for him and later discovers the secrets of his past.

Production

Speechless was filmed in secret in mainland China: in the small city of Shantou, on the East coast of Guangdong Province, and in the northern countryside of Guangdong, in Southern China. The university campus scene, introducing one of the film's most important characters, Han Dong, and his girlfriend, Xiao Ning, was filmed at Shantou University.

The man playing the role of Han Dong is mainland China model, actor and magician Jian Jiang, who is from Guangzhou, while the woman playing his girlfriend, Xiao Ning, is Indonesian-born and Australian-educated actress Yung Yung Yu. Both of the main actors, Pierre-Matthieu Vital and Qilun Gao, are indirect friends of the film's director, Simon Chung.

As filming in China was unofficial, the film was unable to secure a theatrical release in its country of production, although it has been screened once in China, to students at Shantou University, and released in cinemas across Hong Kong. Chung says he wanted his film to explore both a Western perspective of China as well as a Chinese perspective of the West.

The inspiration for the film came from a real-life case known as the "Piano Man," in which a man washed up off the eastern coast of England several years ago.

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