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Youth (Hard Times) (2025)
Directed by Wang Bing
Documentary · 3h 47m
In this enveloping second part of the Youth trilogy, shot between 2015 and 2019, Wang Bing deepens his vérité portrait of a generation struggling to survive on meager wages amidst a nation’s economic expansion, emphasizing the distrustful, increasingly combative relationship between workers and management.
Crew
- Director
- Wang Bing
- Director of Photography
- Shan Xiaohui
- Editor
- Dominique Auvray, Xu Bingyuan
- Producer
- Sonia Buchman, Mao Hui, Nicolas de la Mothe, Vincent Wang
Details
- Original title
- 青春（苦）
- Release date
- 2025-04-02
- Runtime
- 3h 47m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- ZH
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin
- Countries
- France, Luxembourg, Netherlands
- Production
- Les Films Fauves, Gladys Glover, House on Fire, Volya Films, Hubert Bals Fund