MR. ZHANG BELIEVES recounts 30 years of China’s 20th-century history through the story of Mr. Zhang Xianchi and the interacting forms of theatrical fiction and autobiography. Born in a nationalist Kuomintang family in the 1930s, Zhang was a progressive young “leftist” and Communist Party supporter but after the founding of the New China in 1949, he was dubbed a counter-revolutionary “rightist,” a public enemy, and jailed in 1957.
Festivals
Labels & Line Ups
Credits
- Cast
- Cai Yifan
- Zhang Xianchi
- Jimmy Zhang
- Ma Xiao'ou
- Screenplay
- Qui Jiongjiong
- Cinematography
- Peng Fan
- Music
- Diao Lili
- Production
- ALL WAYS PICTURES
Jiongjiong Qiu
China
Born in the 70s, Qiu started as a painter and exhibits his work in China and abroad. Later he started to make documentary films. THE MOON PLACE (2006) and MADAME (2010) both were selected as one of the 10 best documentary films at Nanjing Independent Film Festival. MY MOTHER'S RHAPSODY is selected by Beijing Independent Film Festival 2011. Giving the voice to the people living on the margins and preserve the collective memories are definitely his main concerns and focus.
