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Platform (also know as Zhantai) full movie is released on Aug 29, 2001. Watch Platform online - the Mandarin Drama movie from Hong Kong. Platform is directed by Zhangke Jia and created by Zhangke Jia with Hongwei Wang and Tao Zhao.

Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers whose fate mirrors that of the general population in China as massive socio-economic changes sweep across the mainland. The film commences in 1979 with the troupe performing numbers idolizing Mao Zedong, ending in the '80s when the shows reflect the strong Western influences pervading China, covering a decade in which China saw tremendous changes.

As know as:

Zhantai, Platform, Платформа, プラットホーム, Peron

Release Date:

Sep 04, 2000

Countries:

Hong Kong, Japan, France, China

Language:

Mandarin, Shanxi

Production Companies:

Artcam International, Bandai Entertainment Inc., Hu Tong Communications

Reviews

Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
A laconic portrait of a remote Chinese city in arrested development.
by rottentomatoes, May 23, 2004
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
Awesome filmmaking.
by rottentomatoes, Mar 14, 2003
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
The play of the proscenium against the filmmaker's taste for unmediated reality is fascinating.
by rottentomatoes, Mar 11, 2003

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