I wish i knew jia zhangke biography

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I wish i knew jia zhangke biography: Be here now: Jia Zhangke's documentary

Trailer I Wish I Knew. Photos Add photo. Top cast 27 Edit. Michelangelo Antonioni Self archive footage. Yindi Cao Yuehong Xing archive footage. Danqing Chen Self. Ming-yi Fei Self as Barbara Fei. I instead recount one not included.

I wish i knew jia zhangke biography: I Wish I Knew

It was also the year my mother, putting a finger in the wind, left China with my sister. My mom was a single mother. This happened because her husband was a German self-exile and non-combatant who the Russians had arrested upon their arrival in Dairen. For the crime of being German, they interned him in a Russian POW camp for a year before deporting him to Germany, where he never wished to go.

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My mom had no problems with the Japanese, who left them alone, nor with the Chinese. When the Russian Army passed through, she reported that women of Russian ancestry were left unraped. My mother stayed in Dairen to care for her step-grandmother, who was too old and ill to travel. Comments Copyright Used by permission. Abstract In his new film I Wish I Knew, a documentary on Shanghai, Jia Zhangke recreates once again, after a detour of sorts with Useless and24 City, that wonderful tension between the biographical and the historical, the primal impetus of his art, that had made Platform,The World, and Still Life, his best films, so memorable.

Search Enter search terms:. Intersecting shots of the interviewees are images of contemporary Shanghai and archival footages. And juxtaposed to the interviews and footages is a fictional story of the mysterious white T-shirt lady. Hence, the film title: I wish I knew.