Youth (Hard Times)
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Production year2024
French release02/04/2025
Runtime3 h 43 min
Synopsis
Individual and collective stories unfold in Zhili's textile workshops, becoming ever more dramatic as the seasons go by. Fu YUN keeps making mistakes and is mocked by her colleagues. Xu WANXIANG can't find his notebook, without which his boss refuses to pay him his wages. From atop a passageway, a group of workers watch their indebted boss beat up a supplier. In another workshop, the boss has taken off with all the money. The workers find themselves alone, robbed of the fruits of their labour. Hu SIWEN tells the story of the 2011 Zhili riots: police brutality, imprisonment and fear. After bitter negotiations, the workers return home to celebrate the New Year.
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Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producers : Gladys Glover, House on Fire
- Co-productions : Arte France Cinéma, Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
- Foreign production companies : Les Films Fauves, Volya Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pyramide International
- French distribution : Les Acacias
Full credits (6)
- Executive Producers : Sonia Buchman, Nicolas Rogister De La Mothe, Vincent Wang
- Directors of Photography : Shan Xiaohui, Yang Song, Bihan Ding, Liu Xianhui, Yoshitaka Maeda, Wang Bing
- Editors : Dominique Auvray, Bingyuan Xu
- Sound Recordist : Ranko Paukovic
- Foreign Producer : Hui Mao
- Press Attaché (film) : Viviana Andriani
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Documentary
- Themes : Youth
- Production language : Mandarin
- Coproducer countries : France, The Netherlands, China, Luxembourg
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2024
- French release : 02/04/2025
- Runtime : 3 h 43 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 162.431
- Visa issue date : 10/01/2025
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- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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