China: Beyond the Clouds (1994)
Documentary series made in China in the early 90s. Agland was an anthropologist and he’d already made a wonderful series in the 80s about the Baka tribe in Cameroon. For Beyond the Clouds, he spent several years in a small town in Yunnan province telling the stories of various characters he met. He focuses on normal people but in doing so tells us about China’s past as well as its present and the monumental change that was coming.
- Date of release
- 1994-01-01
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 4h 0m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Phil Agland
Casting
- Lisa Lu — Narrator
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