24 City

– Chengdu nowadays. The state owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartmen..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 52 Minutes
Release Year:
2008
Original Name:
二十四城记
24 City (2008) - Also known as 二十四城记

Chengdu nowadays. The state owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartments called "24 CITY". Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History of China.

24 City (2008) - Trailer

Release Date:

06 Mar 2009

Language:

Mandarin, Shanghainese

MPAA Content-Rating:
Not Rated

Director:

Zhangke Jia

Writer:

Zhangke Jia, Yongming Zhai

Main Actors:

Jianbin Chen, Joan Chen, Liping Lü, Tao Zhao

Plot:

Change and a city in China. In Chengdu, factory 420 is being pulled down to make way for multi-story buildings with luxury flats. Scenes of factory operations, of the workforce, and of buildings stripped bare and then razed, are inter-cut with workers who were born in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s telling their stories - about the factory, which manufactured military aircraft, and about their work and their lives. A middle-aged man visits his mentor, now elderly; a woman talks of being a 19-year-old beauty there and ending up alone. The film concludes with two young people talking, each the child of workers, each relaying a story of one visit to a factory. Times change.

Awards:

5 nominations.

Production:

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Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
Metacritic:
75%