Platform
(2001)
★ 7.1 IMDb · 101 votes
Year: 2001
Runtime: 155 мин
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Director: 贾樟柯
Cast: Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei, Liang Jingdong, Yang Lina, Han Sanming, Wang Bo
Plot
China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers whose fate mirrors that of the general population in China as massive socio-economic changes sweep across the mainland. The film commences in 1979 with the troupe performing numbers idolizing Mao Zedong, ending in the '80s when the shows reflect the strong Western influences pervading China, covering a decade in which China saw tremendous changes.