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The shaft / by Chi Zhang.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- Chinese
- Subjects (All):
- Coal miners--China--Drama.
- Coal miners.
- Families--China--Drama.
- Families.
- Genre:
- Fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (99 min.).
- Other Title:
- Di xia de tian kong
- Sachta
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Global Lens, 2008.
- Language Note:
- In Mandarin.
- Original language in Mandarin.
- Summary:
- In a poor mining town in western China, the stories of a father and his two children intersect and intertwine, illuminating complicated relationships hidden beneath the community's hardened exterior. Accused of an affair with her manager, the attractive daughter of the household finds herself spurned by her boyfriend and forced to accept an arranged marriage. Her brother dreams of being a singer, but after an unforeseen stint in prison, reluctantly heads into the mines like his father, who spends his days searching for the wife who left him many years ago. Writer-director Zhang Chi's wise and poetic debut delicately expresses the turmoil of emotion and expectation wrought by a calloused and difficult existence.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 9, 2014).
- Won 2009 Deauville Asian Film Festival Lotus Award, Jury Prize
- Nominated 2009 Deauville Asian Film Festival Lotus Award, Grand Prix
- Nominated 2008 Ghent International Film Festival Grand Prix Award, Best Film
- Nominated 2008 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Crystal Globe Award
- Won 2008 Marrakech International Film Festival Special Jury Award
- Nominated 2008 Marrakech International Film Festival Golden Star Award
- Won 2008 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Netpac Award
- OCLC:
- 881524783
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