Troubled Laughter
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Traditional | 苦惱人的笑 |
Simplified | 苦恼人的笑 |
Mandarin | Kǔnǎo Rén de Xiào |
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Written by |
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Produced by | Xu Songlin |
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Edited by | Lan Weijie |
Music by | Xu Jingxin |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | China |
Language | Mandarin |
Troubled Laughter is a 1979 Chinese drama film directed by Yang Yanjin and Deng Yimin, set in the Cultural Revolution. The film stars Li Zhiyu as Fu Bin, a powerless newspaper writer who struggles with his conscience during an age of pervasive dishonesty and immorality from the top on down. It was screened out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Cast[]
- Li Zhiyu as Fu Bin, a writer working for the Haicheng Daily
- Pan Hong as Fu Bin's devoted wife, a schoolteacher
- Gong Fei as Fu Bin's young daughter
- Shi Jiufeng as Fu Bin's colleague and old acquaintance
- Cheng Zhi as Haicheng Daily's chief editor, an ass-kisser
- Yuan Yue as Song Abao, Haicheng's Communist Party secretary, a scheming lowlife
- Bai Mu as disgraced professor of surgery
- Qiao Qi as Fu Bin's former professor in journalism
- Qin Yi as the wife of Fu Bin's former professor, a former actress
- Fu Hengzhi as failing medical student-turned-heartless hospital leader
- Qiu Shisui as a sympathizing doctor
- Hong Zhaosen as secretary
References[]
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Troubled Laughter". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1979 films
- Chinese films
- Mandarin-language films
- 1979 drama films
- Films about the Cultural Revolution
- Films shot in Shanghai
- Shanghai Film Studio films
- Chinese drama films
- Chinese film stubs