Bibliograph

I wish I knew, Bojie Media, NCU Group, Shanghai Film Group, Xingyi Shijie, Xstream Films, Yiming International Media Productions ; written and directed by Zhangke Jia

Type

Label

I wish I knew, Bojie Media, NCU Group, Shanghai Film Group, Xingyi Shijie, Xstream Films, Yiming International Media Productions ; written and directed by Zhangke Jia

Language

chi

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Not rated

Main title

I wish I knew

Medium

videorecording DVD

Responsibility statement

Bojie Media, NCU Group, Shanghai Film Group, Xingyi Shijie, Xstream Films, Yiming International Media Productions ; written and directed by Zhangke Jia

Runtime

119

Summary

Shanghai's past and present flow together in Jia Zhangke's poetic and poignant documentary, a portrait of this fast-changing port city. Restoring censored images and filling in forgotten facts, Jia provides an alternative version of twentieth-century China's fraught history as reflected through life in the Yangtze city. He builds his narrative through a series of eighteen interviews with people from all walks of life

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Classification