The World
Acclaimed director Jia Zhang-ke casts a compassionate eye on the daily loves, friendships, and desperate dreams of the twenty-somethings from China’s remote provinces who come to live and work at Beijing’s World Park, a bizarre cross-cultural mix of Las Vegas and Epcot Center.
Jia Zhang-ke's brilliant film finds truth in delusion." —Adam Nayman, Eye Weekly, Toronto
Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Times series – SIFF Cinema Fall 2008
Cast & Crew
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Producer: Chow Keung, Shozo Ichiyama, Hengameh Panahi
Editor: Kong Jing-lei
Screenwriter: Jia Zhang-ke
Cinematographer: Yu Lik-wai
Music: Lim Giong
Principal Cast: Zhao Tao, Chen Tai-sheng, Jing Jue Jiang Zhong-wei, Wang Yi-qin
Filmography: Unknown Pleasures (2002); Platform (2000); Pickpocket (1997)
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