Platform (film)

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Platform

Directed by	Jia Zhangke
Written by	Jia Zhangke
Starring	Wang Hongwei Zhao Tao Liang Jingdong
Music by	Yoshihiro Hanno
Cinematography	Yu Lik-wai
Editing by	Kong Jinglei
Distributed by	United States: Empire Pictures New Yorker Films (DVD) United Kingdom: Artificial Eye
Release date(s)	Venice: September 4, 2000 United States: March 14, 2001 (limited) United Kingdom: August 2, 2002
Running time	154 min./193 min. (VFF)
Country	China
Language	Mandarin
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Platform (Chinese: 站台; pinyin: Zhàntái) is a 2000 film written and directed by Jia Zhangke. The film is named after a popular song about waiting at a railway platform.

It is set in and around the small city of Fenyang, Shanxi province, China, from the end of 1970s to the beginning of 1990s. Fenyang was also the birthplace of director Jia Zhangke. The film is called "an epic of grassroots".

It follows a group of twenty-something performers as they face personal and societal changes.

Dialogue is a mixture of local speech, mainly Jin Chinese and Standard Mandarin.

[edit] Main cast

Wang Hongwei - Cui Minliang
Zhao Tao - Yin Ruijuan
Liang Jingdong - Zhang Jun
Yang Tianyi - Zhong Ping
Wang Bo - Yao Eryong

[edit] Awards and nominations

Venice Film Festival, 2000
- Golden Lion - nominee
- Netpac Award
Nantes Three Continents Festival, 2000
- Golden Montgolfiere
Singapore International Film Festival, 2000
- SFC Young Cinema Award
- Silver Screen Award-Best Asian Feature Film (nominated)
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, 2001
- Best Film
Fribourg International Film Festival, 2001
- Don Quixote Award
- FIPRESCI Prize

[edit] External links

Platform at the Internet Movie Database
Platform at Allmovie
Platform at Rotten Tomatoes

v • d • e Films directed by Jia Zhangke

Feature films: Xiao Wu (1997) • Platform (2000) • Unknown Pleasures (2002) • The World (2004) • Still Life (2006) • 24 City (2008) Documentaries: Dong (2006) • Useless (2007) Short films: Xiao Shan Going Home (1995) • Dudu (1996) • In Public (2001) • Our Ten Years (2007)

v • d • e Cinema of China

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