| DIRECTOR: |
Zhang Yimou |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Shu Ping |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Lu Yue |
| EDITION: |
Du Yuan |
| MUSIC: |
Zang Tianshuo |
| CAST: |
Jiang Wen, Li Baotian, Qu
Ying, Ge You, Zhang Yimou |
| PRODUCER: |
Wang Qipeng |
| FESTIVALS: |
Veneza |
| PRODUCTION: |
Guang Xi Film Studio, 53001
Nan Ning City, Guang Xi, 26 North of You Ai Road
Tel/fax: 00 86 771 313-3739;
Beijing Ludao Xianshui Food, 100027, Chao Yang District, Pequim, 28 Xiao Yun Road;
Shen Zhen Zhao Jing Building Materials Ltd.
Tel/fax: 00 86 755 664-8385 |
| WORLD SALES: |
Sun Productions, Hong Kong
Tel: 00 85 2 2542-2929 Fax: 00 85 2 2542-2510 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
Keep Cool |
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Col., 91 min. 1997 |
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Born in Xi’an in 1950, Zhang Yimou was in high school when the Cultural
Revolution assailed the country in 1966.When the Peking Cinema Academy held a national
competition in 1978.
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Zhang Yimou’s
first film to be made in Peking today. This is a good-humored report on the changes in
relationship and behavior in China today where the slogan is “Keep Cool! Let’s
Talk!”In a society where people are always busy with no time to talk, young Xiao
Shuai does his best to attract attention. He is a book seller in love with beautiful An
Hong, a modern girl, liberated and very sexy. She, however, is already going out with a
powerful and influential nouveau riche from the city, and she pays not the slightest
attention to Xiao. Desperate, he does all he can to attract her attention including hiring
sellers from the street market to continuously call out her name with a loud speaker in
front of the building where she lives. Xiao is arrested and later meets Lao Zhang, a
researcher who inadvertently joins in the conflict, but who even so tries to help him.