Platform

Platform (2001)

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China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

Date of release
2001-08-29
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (103)
Runtime
2h 35m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Jia Zhangke

Casting

Interesting facts

Platform is a 2000 Chinese film written and directed by Jia Zhangke. The film is set in and around the small city of Fenyang, Shanxi province, China, from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s. It follows a group of twenty-something performers as they face personal and societal changes. The dialogue is a mixture of local speech, mainly Jin Chinese and Mandarin. The film has been called "an epic of grassroots". It is named after a popular song about waiting at a railway platform.

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