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Before the flood
Title
Before the flood [videorecording] / [Fan Yu Production ; directors, Li Yifan, Yan Yu = Yan mo / dao yan Li Yifan, Yan Yu.
Before the flood [videorecording] / [Fan Yu Production] ; directors, Li Yifan, Yan Yu = 淹没 / 導演李一凡, 鄢雨.
Published
[Brooklyn, N.Y.] : dGenerate Films, [2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from disc label.
Camera, Yan Yu ; edited by Fan Yu.
In Mandarin and Sichuan dialect with English subtitles.
Summary
A landmark documentary following the residents of the historic city of Fengjie as they clash with the officials forcing them to evacuate their homes to make way for the world's largest dam. China's Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam built on earth, has displaced millions of local residents whose towns and villages have been flooded. Fengjie, a city that has thrived along the Yangtze River for a thousand years, has only a few months left before it is completely submerged in water. Its citizens contend with administrators and each other over the residences in "New Fengjie", which are allocated via lottery and are far smaller than the homes they've worked a lifetime to build. Communist collectivism gives way to individual ruthlessness while the community battles furiously against bureaucratic mismanagement.
Variant and related titles
Yan mo
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Chinese
Added to Catalog
July 25, 2011
Credits
Camera, Yan Yu ; edited by Fan Yu.
System details note
DVD-R, may not play in all DVD players.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
李一凡, 1966-
鄢雨, 1971-
Fan yu gong zuo shi.
凡雨工作室.
dGenerate Films (Firm)
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