The Black Cannon Incident
A vital 5th Generation job released throughout the second phase of Deng Xiaoping's social and financial reforms, this durable social witticism delightfully illustrates the clash in between the increasing course of quick commercial modernizers as well as old Celebration staffs with a significant Cultural Transformation hangover. The film chronicles the Kafkaesque predicament of a bumbling factory translator who is thought of commercial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is obstructed by a militant snoop. (The "black cannon" of the title describes the missing out on chess piece the hapless hero is attempting to situate.) Placed under examination and reassigned to a less sensitive division however never ever educated of the factor for his demotion, he applications to get his job back, stimulating an increasingly obtuse and humorous series of Event conferences, embeded in a boardroom right out of German Expressionism.
Released: 1985-01-01