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Empire of dust / [produced by] Savage Film ; [a film by] Bram van Paesschen.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- French
- Kongo
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Chinese.
- Foreign workers, Chinese--Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Foreign workers, Chinese.
- Roads--Democratic Republic of the Congo--Design and construction.
- Roads.
- China--Foreign economic relations--Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- China.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo--Foreign economic relations--China.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (55 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Paris, France : CAT & Docs, 2011.
- Language Note:
- In French and Chinese, with some Kikongo; English subtitles.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Two men representing two different cultures meet in the dust of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lao Yang, head of logistics for the Chinese Railway Engineering Company, and Eddy, a Congolese man speaking fluent Mandarin, have just joined an isolated camp with the goal to re-lay a 300km strip of road. However, deliveries of equipment or food haven't arrived and the road works will cease without the construction materials. As Lao Yan learns about the Congolese way of making deals, both men are forced on a harsh but also absurdly funny journey of misunderstandings.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed June 18, 2020).
- Won Docville Jury Award, Best Belgian Documentary, 2012
- OCLC:
- 1191033049
- Publisher Number:
- ASP5065025/marc
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