Platform (2000 film)
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Platform is a 2000 Chinese film written and directed by Jia Zhangke. The film is set in and around the small city of Fenyang, Shanxi province, China (Jia's birthplace), from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s. It follows a group of twenty-something performers as they face personal and societal changes. The dialogue is a mixture of local speech, mainly Jin Chinese and Mandarin. The film has been called "an epic of grassroots". It is named after a popular song about waiting at a railway platform.
Platform | |||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 站台 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 站台 | ||||||
Literal meaning | Railway platform | ||||||
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Directed by | Jia Zhangke | ||||||
Written by | Jia Zhangke | ||||||
Produced by | Kit Ming Li Shozo Ichiyama | ||||||
Starring | Wang Hongwei Zhao Tao Liang Jingdong Yang Tianyi | ||||||
Cinematography | Yu Lik-wai | ||||||
Edited by | Kong Jinglei | ||||||
Music by | Yoshihiro Hanno | ||||||
Release date |
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Running time | 154 minutes 193 minutes (director's cut) | ||||||
Country | China | ||||||
Language | Mandarin |
Platform has garnered wide acclaim from critics in the years since its release, and is often named one of the greatest films of the 2000s.[1] The film has been called the masterpiece of the entire "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema,[2] although the movie has never been publicly released in China due to its being made outside of official state approval.[3]