Film

A Film Is Stopped

1994 · 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.

Zhang Yuan

self

Tang Danian

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Wu Wenguang

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Dai Ning

self

Cui Jian

self

He Jianjun

self

Chen Daoming

self

Liu Zhenyun

self

Lin Xudong

self

Mou Sen

self

• Dai NingDirector · Producer
• Chen QiangProducer
• Li XiaoshanEditor

Release date

January 1, 1994

Status

Released

Original language

Chinese

Runtime

55m