Shanghai serenade
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Shanghai serenade |
| Original title | Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao |
| Country of production | People's Republic of China , France |
| original language | Mandarin |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Zhang Yimou |
| script | Bi Feiyu |
| production |
Yves Marmion , Jean-Louis Piel , Wang Wei , Wu Yigong , Zhu Yongde |
| music | Zhang Guangtian |
| camera | Lü Yue |
| cut | Yuan you |
| occupation | |
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Shanghai Serenade (Original title: Chinese 摇啊摇 ， 摇 到 外婆 桥 , Pinyin yáo a yáo, yáo dào wàipó qiáo - "Swinging and cradling, weighing up to Grandma's Bridge (a lullaby)") ( 1995 ) is a gangster film by producer Wu Yigong with Zhang Yimou in the direction and Gong Li in the lead role.
The background to this film is Shanghai at the beginning of the 20th century, when the city was a metropolis of China and the Far East.
The village boy Shuisheng arrives in Shanghai and looks for shelter with his uncle in Shanghai. This uncle is a member of a large mafia clan and is killed shortly afterwards in a fight with another clan. Shuisheng then serves the famous night club dancer Xiaojinbao (Gong Li), who is also the godfather's lover.
A large part of this film was shot in the small town of Zhouzhuang , a small town with many rivers and wooden bridges in Jiangsu Province, not far from Shanghai.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : Behind the exciting, splendidly and routinely staged fable about betrayal and atonement, allegorical references to China in the 1990s are revealed. Signs of hope for a better future rub against the image of the eternal cycle of power, seduction and oppression and describe the interchangeability of the individual in Chinese society.
- Prisma Online: A splendidly decorated and brilliantly photographed homage to the US gangster films of the 1930s by Zhang Yimou, the star director of the Chinese cinema scene. With the story he also alludes to the power struggles and materialism in China today. As is so often the case in Yimou's films, his partner at the time, Gong Li, performed brilliantly in the role of the nightclub singer.
Awards
The film took part in the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1995 and won the Technology Grand Prix here. It was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film. Cinematographer Lü Yue also received an Oscar nomination for his work .
Web links
- Shanghai Triad in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shanghai Serenade. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Shanghai Serenade. In: Prisma.de. Retrieved December 10, 2016 .