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Change and a city in China. In Chengdu, factory 420 is being pulled down to make way for multi-story buildings with luxury flats. Scenes of factory operations, of the workforce, and of buildings stripped bare and then razed, are inter-cut with workers who were born in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s telling their stories - about the factory, which manufactured military aircraft, and about their work and their lives. A middle-aged man visits his mentor, now elderly; a woman talks of being a 19-year-old beauty there and ending up alone. The film concludes with two young people talking, each the child of workers, each relaying a story of one visit to a factory. Times change. (Arrow Films)
(more)Cast
Jianbin Chen
China
Best movies:
Goddes of Mercy (2004)
Confucius (2010)
Joan Chen
China
Best movies:
The Last Emperor (1987)
Heaven & Earth (1993)
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014)
Tao Zhao
China
Best movies:
The World (2004)
Still Life (2006)
Platform (2000)
Liping Lü
China
Best movies:
Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010)
The Blue Kite (1993)
Haowen Chen
China