| DIRECTOR: |
Zhang Yuan |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Wang Xiaobo, Zhang Yuan |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Zhang Jian |
| EDITION: |
Vincent Levy |
| MUSIC: |
Xiang Min |
| PRODUCTION: |
Quelqu'un d'Autre Prod., 45 rue
Westermeyer, 94200 - Ivry-sur-Seine
Tel: 00 33 1 4521-1212 Fax: 00 33 1 4671-8299 |
| WORLD SALES: |
Fortissimo Film, Herenmarkt, 10-2 -
1013 ED Amsterdã
Tel: 00 31 20 627-3215 Fax: 00 31 20 626-1155 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
Dong Gong, Xi Gong |
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Col., 90 min.,1997 |
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Born in Nanjing in 1963, and graduated in
cinema from The Peking Academy in 1989. He is the
most outstanding and combative independent
filmmaker in Continental China. His first feature
Mama of the nineties, dealt with another taboo
subject - unmarried mothers. His next feature
Beijing Bastards (1992) was part of the
Eighteenth São Paulo International Film
Festival; and Sons (Twentieth São Paulo
International Film Festival). He also writes and
directs for theater and for Asian MTV.
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The
film triggered the wrath of censorship in communist
China, and copies are only circulating in the West
because the negative was in France. Director Zhang Yuan
had his passport seized. Why such wrath? Because the film
broaches a homosexual relationship in the public
lavatories of a gloomy park in Peking, and because it
depicts the nervous confrontation of love and hate
between a policeman and a gay.This is, in fact, the first
gay film in Communist China, drawn from a theater play
written by the same Zhang Yuan and performed in São
Paulo, at the Festival of Scenic Arts, in 1996.The wrath
of the authorities triggered by Zhuan Yuan’s
independent film has already had other consequences. As
from July last year, no one has been permitted to film in
China without the close scrutiny of a government
bureaucrat. And it is now prohibited to export lengths of