Synopsis
During summer, 2004, three students, Feng Haitao, Li Yuchun and Jim Lian, come out of Sichuan university as graduates. They leave then looking for a job in one of China's big cities, Chengdu, and by doing this trie to find their place in society. But their quest quickly turns into despair: the real world is merciless to them and is not at all susceptible to their success at school.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Solferino Images
- Foreign production company : Sichuan Television
- Film exports/foreign sales : Écrans des Mondes (ICTV)
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Michel Noll
- Director of Photography : Song Gao
- Editors : Zhenjiang Dong, Hongbin Zhao, Axelle Schatz
- Sound Recordist : Hong Hao
- Foreign Producer : Chaoyang Cheng
- Production managers : Éric Lambert, Jianying Sun, Ling Lu
- Sound Editor : Olivier Lafuma
- Special Effects : Qing Zheng, Qing Zhang, Quanxu Chen
- Sound mixers : Zhongxue Hu, Xinagdond He, Olivier Lafuma
- Narrator : Dominique Malige
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : Economics, Education, Society, Work
- Production language : Chinese
- Coproducer countries : France, China
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, China)
- Production year : 2008
- Runtime : 51 min 37 seconds
- Visa number : 122.325
- Visa issue date : 14/01/2009
- Production formats : DV-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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