In data de 12 Iunie 2021, la sala de cinema Elvire Popesco a Institutului Francez va rula filmul lui Urlike Ottinger – China. The Arts – The People.
Proiectia va incepe la ora 14:00 si dureaza 4 ore si 30 de minute ( pauza de 30 de minute)
Stations of the film
ACT 1
Beijing, February 1985, at the time of the Spring Festival, the ancient Chinese New Years celebration
In the streets around the Drummer’s Gate
The Hutongs – houses with inner courtyard in older part of city
The Temple Fair and some of its attractions
The Forbidden City from the outside
The Summer Palace in winter
The Bird Market
“House of Hundred Wares” – the shopping district
The pharmacy “Common Charity”
A performance of the comedy “Happy New Year” in the Mingzu Juyan Theater
The Temple Fair
A closed company-dance function in the ballroom of the Beijing Hotel
The luxury taxi for foreigners and ‘Chinese living abroad’
The city taxi – almost exclusively operated by women
“The Beijing Film Studio”
The film director Ling Zifeng
ACT 2
In Sichuan Province, March 1985
How the peasants from Golden Horse River are taking their wares to Chengdu for sale on the free market there.
“At the Mote Bridge” – a Sichuan opera, performed by the Wang Jiang Ensemble of Chengdu
An old Chinese tale of the trials and tribulations in the love between Giant Fish
(Xuan Deng-Ao) and Treasure Pearl (A Bauzhu), the children of two Mandarin families, friendly with each other for generations and residing at the Emperor’s Court. / The evil concubine connives to implicate the innocent Treasure Pearl in an illicit affair. After being chased from her home by her father, Treasure Pearl’s suicide is prevented by the “good Mandarin” and “marriage broker,” and in the end the lovers as well as their families are happily reunited.
The Lantern Festival in Chengdu
Street of the ‘Singing Sewing Machines’
The Bamboo Factory
The ancient provincial town Guanxian / The Tao Temple of Fulongguan (Canyon of the Sleeping Dragon) / The movable dikes / The Temple of Two Kings
Ascent to the Tao mountain monastery in the Qing Cheng Shan (Mountain of Green-Blue Attainment)
ACT 3
In Yunnan Province, March 1985
In the provincial capital Kunming: The East Temple Street / The Long Spring Street
The Yuantong Temple / The Bamboo Temple / The Golden Temple / and Daguan Park (Park of Great Vistas)
Shilin – the Stone Forest and its inhabitants, the Sani, a minority group
In Yunnan Province, March 1985
On the road to Lake Er Hai, near the Burmese-Tibetan border
The former capital Dali and the villages Xizhou and Zhoucheng, where the Bai minority lives
In the evening, on the village square of Zhoucheng, the traveling movie theater shows a film about the history of the Bai
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