A Film Is Stopped

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A Film Is Stopped (1994)

Directed by Dai Ning

· 55m

The one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It follows a chaotic period in November of 1993, when production suddenly halted on Zhang Yuan's TV film adaptation of a popular novel, Chicken Feathers, after the Chinese Film Bureau announced that Zhang could no longer direct the film due to submitting his previous independent feature, 1992's Beijing Bastards, to a film festival in Japan without receiving the proper authorization to do so. Ning's documentary features anguished meetings between the Chicken Feather's production crew as they debate replacing Zhang with another director, along with testimonials on the state of censorship in Chinese independent cinema of the early '90s from Wu Wenguang, Tang Danian, He Jianjun, Cui Jian, and others.

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Cast

Zhang Yuan self Tang Danian self Wu Wenguang self Dai Ning self Cui Jian self He Jianjun self Chen Daoming self Liu Zhenyun self
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Lin Xudong self Mou Sen self

Crew

Director
Dai Ning
Editor
Li Xiaoshan
Producer
Dai Ning, Chen Qiang

Details

Original title
停机
Release date
1994-01-01
Runtime
55m
Original language
ZH
Spoken languages
Mandarin