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CHINA UNCENSORED
September 15 - 18 at 11:30 PM on CBC TV
Four extraordinary one hour films by Chinese film-makers provide a rare, inside look at work, life and love in today’s China, will be seen on CBC TV Monday, September 15 to Thursday, September 18 at 11:30 p.m.
The War of Love (Monday) features Beijing divorce counselor Hu Yanping and her friend, Liu Xian, a nurse, who run an amateur dating/marriage agency in the evening, and on weekends. Many career women now free from the domestic slavery of an arranged marriage discover their newfound wealth and independence doesn’t make them an attractive marriage partner. The film explores Hu’s life and the contrast between her matchmaking, and her job as a counselor for female victims of marital breakdown and domestic violence. Yu is trapped in an unhappy marriage from which there is no escape. Her husband is a soldier. Chinese law prohibits wives of soldiers from divorcing their husbands. A marriage broker and divorce counselor, Hu looks on with envy at her clients while she has no hope. Produced and directed by Jiang Yue and Duan Jinchuan.
This Happy Life (Tuesday) focuses on the trials and tribulations of Mr. Fu, head of passenger affairs at Zhengzhou, one of China’s busiest train stations. His working life is chaotic and his private life is traumatic. His first wife died as a result of an abortion enforced by China’s one child policy and he was left alone to raise his baby son, now 14. His second marriage is an unhappy one and during filming his son decides to leave him and join the army. This intimate portrait of Mr. Fu and his colleagues is alternately hilarious, tragic and deeply moving. Produced and directed by Jiang Yue.
The Secret of My Success (Wednesday) tells the story of wheeler-dealer Lu Guo Hua, a birth control officer and political power broker in a remote northeastern village. The film follows six months of Lu’s life, including the election campaign for village head and his support for the incumbent head Mrs. Li. After a woman, pregnant with her third child, runs away from Lu’s abortion demand, a humiliated Lu switches his allegiance for village head. The film offers insights into China’s first attempts at political democracy and the realities of the one child system, as well as creating a portrait of a small time rogue. Produced and directed by Duan Jinchuan.
Xiao’s Long March (Thursday) Xiao Zhenning is a poor 18 year-old boy from a provincial town, unemployed and fed up with living in his parents’ two-room apartment. China has a standing army of one million, and having dropped out of school it’s Xiao’s last resort. The film tracks his last days with his nagging parents and into his three months of basic training. Xiao learns much about himself and his place in China’s ‘classless’ society, which surprises, upsets and ultimately liberates him. Produced and directed by Wu Gong.
Produced by Decameron Films in co-production with BBC, Arte France and in association with CBC, TV2 (Denmark), YLE (Finland), NRK (Norway) and SVT (Sweden).
September 15 - 18 at 11:30 PM on CBC TV
Four extraordinary one hour films by Chinese film-makers provide a rare, inside look at work, life and love in today’s China, will be seen on CBC TV Monday, September 15 to Thursday, September 18 at 11:30 p.m.
The War of Love (Monday) features Beijing divorce counselor Hu Yanping and her friend, Liu Xian, a nurse, who run an amateur dating/marriage agency in the evening, and on weekends. Many career women now free from the domestic slavery of an arranged marriage discover their newfound wealth and independence doesn’t make them an attractive marriage partner. The film explores Hu’s life and the contrast between her matchmaking, and her job as a counselor for female victims of marital breakdown and domestic violence. Yu is trapped in an unhappy marriage from which there is no escape. Her husband is a soldier. Chinese law prohibits wives of soldiers from divorcing their husbands. A marriage broker and divorce counselor, Hu looks on with envy at her clients while she has no hope. Produced and directed by Jiang Yue and Duan Jinchuan.
This Happy Life (Tuesday) focuses on the trials and tribulations of Mr. Fu, head of passenger affairs at Zhengzhou, one of China’s busiest train stations. His working life is chaotic and his private life is traumatic. His first wife died as a result of an abortion enforced by China’s one child policy and he was left alone to raise his baby son, now 14. His second marriage is an unhappy one and during filming his son decides to leave him and join the army. This intimate portrait of Mr. Fu and his colleagues is alternately hilarious, tragic and deeply moving. Produced and directed by Jiang Yue.
The Secret of My Success (Wednesday) tells the story of wheeler-dealer Lu Guo Hua, a birth control officer and political power broker in a remote northeastern village. The film follows six months of Lu’s life, including the election campaign for village head and his support for the incumbent head Mrs. Li. After a woman, pregnant with her third child, runs away from Lu’s abortion demand, a humiliated Lu switches his allegiance for village head. The film offers insights into China’s first attempts at political democracy and the realities of the one child system, as well as creating a portrait of a small time rogue. Produced and directed by Duan Jinchuan.
Xiao’s Long March (Thursday) Xiao Zhenning is a poor 18 year-old boy from a provincial town, unemployed and fed up with living in his parents’ two-room apartment. China has a standing army of one million, and having dropped out of school it’s Xiao’s last resort. The film tracks his last days with his nagging parents and into his three months of basic training. Xiao learns much about himself and his place in China’s ‘classless’ society, which surprises, upsets and ultimately liberates him. Produced and directed by Wu Gong.
Produced by Decameron Films in co-production with BBC, Arte France and in association with CBC, TV2 (Denmark), YLE (Finland), NRK (Norway) and SVT (Sweden).
