Synopsis
In the mountains which separate the North from the South of China, a lot of out in the sticks villages are situated high up. It is a region forgotten by the infrastructurals reforms and nevertheless, here, arises the same type of intracommunity problems. To try to resolve the inevitable conflicts inherent to the human condition, in particular in these societies cut off from the world, the administration established a system of itinerant justice.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Solferino Images
- Foreign production company : Sichuan Radio & Television
- Film exports/foreign sales : Écrans des Mondes (ICTV)
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Michel Noll
- Director of Photography : Wenqing Zhang
- Editors : Cécile Beaulande, Stanislas Koch
- Foreign Producer : Chaoyang Cheng
- Production managers : Éric Lambert, Benmin Guo
- Sound Editor : Olivier Lafuma
- Sound Mixer : Olivier Lafuma
- Narrator : Dominique Malige
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : Monde rural, Society, Justice
- Production language : Chinese
- Coproducer countries : France, China
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, China)
- Production year : 2008
- Runtime : 52 min 13 seconds
- Visa number : 122.324
- Visa issue date : 20/01/2009
- Production formats : DV-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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