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24 City (Chinese: 二十四城记) is a 2008 Chinese film directed and co-written by Jia Zhangke. The film follows three generations of characters in Chengdu (in the 1950s, the 1970s and the present) as a state-owned factory gives way to a modern apartment complex .
Summaries. When a factory is being torn down in Chengdu, China, workers reflect on their experiences and the importance of the factory in their lives. Change and a city in China. In Chengdu, factory 420 is being pulled down to make way for multi-story buildings with luxury flats.
24 City is a documentary about the transformation of Factory 420 in Chengdu from the secret manufacture of military aircraft engines in 1958 to, after the Vietnam War, a downsized and remodeled facility producing consumer products, and then, more recently, into a privately owned real-estate development called “24 City”.
Mar 6, 2009 · 24 City: Directed by Zhangke Jia. With Jianbin Chen, Joan Chen, Liping Lü, Tao Zhao. When a factory is being torn down in Chengdu, China, workers reflect on their experiences and the importance of the factory in their lives.
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- Documentary, Drama
- Zhangke Jia
- 2009-03-06
Documentary focusing on the lives of eight people affected after a thriving factory in China that provides hundreds of jobs is replaced by an apartment complex.
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- Jianbin Chen, Joan Chen, Liping Lu, Tao Zhao
- Zhang-Ke Jia
- Shanghai Film Group
Jun 4, 2009 · In his latest look at his rapidly modernizing homeland, the virtuoso Chinese director Jia Zhangke depicts extraordinary changes in both economy and psychology. Indeed, 24 City reveals...
Oct 4, 2008 · Simultaneously more and less than meets the eye, Jia Zhang-ke’s chronicle of a state-run military factory complex being demolished to erect luxury apartments amounts to a subversive take on the talking-head documentary and how we’ve taken its conventions of authoritativeness for granted.
