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The Black Cannon Incident
A vital Fifth Generation job released throughout the 2nd phase of Deng Xiaoping's social and also financial reforms, this robust social witticism delightfully illustrates the clash in between the increasing class of rapid commercial modernizers and also old Party staffs with a serious Cultural Revolution hangover. The movie chronicles the Kafkaesque predicament of a bumbling manufacturing facility translator who is thought of commercial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is obstructed by a militant snoop. (The "black cannon" of the title refers to the missing chess item the unlucky hero is trying to find.) Put under investigation and also reassigned to a less delicate division however never informed of the factor for his downgrading, he requests to get his job back, sparking a progressively obtuse and amusing collection of Party meetings, set in a conference room right out of German Expressionism.
Released: 1985-01-01