The Black Cannon Incident
An essential 5th Generation job released throughout the second stage of Deng Xiaoping's social as well as economic reforms, this robust social witticism delightfully illustrates the clash between the increasing course of fast commercial modernizers and old Celebration cadres with a serious Cultural Change hangover. The movie chronicles the Kafkaesque dilemma of a bumbling factory translator that is suspected of commercial espionage after sending out an innocent telegram that is obstructed by a militant snoop. (The "black cannon" of the title describes the missing chess piece the hapless hero is attempting to find.) Placed under examination and also reassigned to a less delicate division yet never ever informed of the factor for his demotion, he applications to get his job back, stimulating a significantly obtuse and humorous collection of Event conferences, set in a boardroom straight out of German Expressionism.
Released: 1985-01-01