136m •
2015
Zhang Xianchi is a man thrown into the Cultural Revolution and its afterimage, plunged into the ideological deadlocks of the era and suffering its consequences beyond it. Born into a family that supports the nationalist Kuomintang, Zhang eventually became a leftist and joined the Communist Party. But his family’s background eventually catches up with him, and in a series of bureaucratic measures, he is labelled as a Rightist, leading to a slew of irrational yet life-affecting consequences. His story is told through an exhilarating hybrid of forms, blending documentary-styled interviews and spectral theatrical displays within an ever-mutating studio-space. Hypnagogic in its imagery and ironic in attitude, Mr. Zhang Believes is a tour-de-force treatise of a man caught within dogmatic political maneuverings, which it critiques indirectly with creative and stoic fervour.
1998•
0
2008•
7.5
2005•
0
2002•
6.5
2008•
6.3
2005•
0
2008•
6.4
2012•
0
2016•
6.2
2006•
7.0
2017•
6.9
1987•
0
2003•
6.0
2005•
6.0
2016•
7.0
2022•
6.0
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
