Platform (film)
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| Directed by | Jia Zhangke |
| Written by | Jia Zhangke |
| Starring | Wang Hongwei Zhao Tao Liang Jingdong |
| Music by | Yoshihiro Hanno |
| Cinematography | Nelson Yu Lik-wai |
| Release date(s) |  September 4, 2000 (VFF) March 14, 2001 (limited) |
| 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 (贾樟柯). The film is named after a popular song about waiting at a railway platform.
It is set in the 1980s in and around the small city of Fenyang (Chinese: 汾阳市; pinyin: Fényáng Shì), Shanxi, China.
It follows a group of twenty-something performers as they face personal and societal changes.
Dialogue is a mixture of local speech 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
- 2000 Singapore International Film Festival
- SFC Young Cinema Award- winner
- 2000 Venice Film Festival
- Golden Lion - nominee
- Netpac Award- winner
- 2001 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
- Best Film - winner
[edit] External links
- Zhantai at the Internet Movie Database
Feature films: Xiao Wu (1997) • Platform (2000) • Unknown Pleasures (2002) • The World (2004) • Still Life (2006) • East (2006) • Tattoo Age (2007) •
Short films: Xiao shan hui jia (1995) • Dudu (1996) • In Public (2001) •
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