Movies: Zheng Dasheng

In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world. China is opening up to the West and the students’ lives are a tangle of love stories and friendships, ...

This is a story about a determined woman and a group of young teachers who have just graduated and led more than a hundred girls to successfully change their lives against the odds. It is about love, youth, passion and destiny... The film is adapted ...

The story of "Electric Wave" takes place on the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, and is based on the true story of the martyr Li Bai. It is a city card born from the red genes of Shanghai. There is no dialogue in the dance drama film, and the emoti...

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Life on a small village in China during the last years of the Cultural Revolution takes a different course when the people is asked to prepare and perform a classic opera for government officials, entangling past, present and fiction....

The second film directed by Dasheng Zheng....

The younger sister, who has been separated from her husband for many years, avoids the past and is far away from her hometown Cangshan. While doing household chores in Shanghai, she also takes care of her mother who is suffering from dementia and her...

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A group of losers trying to kidnap the famous conductor Herbert von Karajan....

A documentary following Zhou Yuanquiang, a cultural worker in Jingdezhen, China who makes movies with untrained local actors....

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Overseas Chinese making a life for themselves in Chicago. A Chinese-U.S. joint production, shot in 1993 and released in 1996....

ZHENG Dasheng's "Tianjin Xianren" (A Useless Man) portrays the characteristic figure of an idler roaming the streets of Tianjin shortly before the Sino-Japanese War. Director Zheng skillfully interweaves the traditional storytelling performance with ...