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在上海,愚园路

On Yuyuan Road

Director: Hongbo Zhou/
Producer:SMG Documentary Center | Thousand Acre Pictures
Country / Region:China
Year:2021
Duration:80 min
Film Introduction
What is the key to open the door to understanding Yuyuan Road? Yuyuan Road, 2,755 meters long, like a touch of pale blue ink in Shanghai history. The significance of what it experienced may go beyond its physical length. The road with the rows of old buildings, which reflects the intricate modern Chinese history of 100 years, where the stream of people flows through. Following a young man born here, the film attempts to gather the memory fragments scattered on Yuyuan Road, and re-assemble a giant puzzle including the small and simple lives traces of someone and great and complicated times changes.
Film Creator
Hongbo Zhou, studied in The Beijing Film Academy, is a director of Shanghai Television and has made dozens of documentaries and feature films. Filmgraphy of Zhou Hongbo: In 2013,White Ballet Skirt, documentary; won the best documentary for the Asian Pacific Screen Awards, Australia; A Best Long Documentary Unit of the Chinese Documentary Academy Award selection; won the Best Documentary Of The Year by the Chinese Culture Department; shown at the German Frankfurt Film Festival; In 2009, My Best Husband, documentary; won The Best Ten Documentaries of the Year, selected by the Chinese Association of Documentary; In 2006-2007, Lotus Ferry, documentary; selected for Amsterdam Film Festival, French FIPA Film Festival, Shanghai International Film Festival; won the best Director — China Documentary Association;In 2003, won The Asia New Director Competition of the year by Discovery Channel.
Contact Information
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