Country: Italy, China
Language: Chinese
Year: 2006
Running Time: 92 min
From one of the earliest voices and a legend in the world of Chinese underground filmmaking comes an "above ground" work of social commentary and satire; LITTLE RED FLOWERS, a contemporary (post 1949 revolution) parable about the nature, complexities and vicissitudes of being compelled to "fit in" to a society that requires it. Based on a book by one of modern China's best selling writers, LITTLE RED FLOWERS is seen through the eyes of a young boy who is entering school for the first time. Director Zhang Yuan treads a very fine line in this touching, universal, and thought-provoking film.
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Director
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Zhang Yuan
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Producer
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Zhang Yuan
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Producer
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Marco Müller
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Producer
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Allen Chan
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Producer
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Bolen Li
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Producer
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Lifeng Yao
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Executive Producer
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Shuo Wang
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Executive Producer
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Xiaofeng Xu
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Associate Producer
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Mo Wang
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Associate Producer
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Alex Z. Jia
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Production Company
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Beijing Century Good-Tidings Cultural Development Company
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Production Company
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Huakun Entertainment Ltd.
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Production Company
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Citic Culture and Sports Enterprises Ltd
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Production Company
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Downtown Pictures
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In Association With
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RAI Cinema
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In Association With
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Istituto Luce
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Screenplay
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Ning Dai
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Screenplay
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Zhang Yuan
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Based on the novel by
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KAN SHANG QU HEN MEI by Wang Shuo
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Cinematography
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Yang Tao
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Art Director
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Tingxiao Huo
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Music
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Carlo Crivelli
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Editor
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Jacopo Quadri
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Sound
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Wu Lala
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Chen Manyuan
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Dong Bowen
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Ning Yuanyuan
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Zhao Rui
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Winner CICAE (Exhibitors) Award Panorama Berlin, from the director of EAST PALACE WEST PALACE and BEIJING BASTARDS,
Independent film director and producer Zhang Yuan was born in Nanjing, China, in 1963. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cinematography from the Beijing Film Academy in 1989. In 1990, Zhang produced and directed his first feature film, MAMA, which subsequently won the Jury Award and a Special Mention at France’s Festival des Trois Continents in Nantes. His second feature, BEIJING BASTARDS, completed in 1992, won a Special Mention at the Locarno Film Festival and the Jury Award at the Singapore Film Festival. In 1994, Zhang produced, directed and filmed a long documentary, THE SQUARE, which won a Jury Award at the Hawaii Film Festival. The following year he produced and directed SONS, which won the Tiger Award at Rotterdam. His next film EAST PALACE, WEST PALACE, the story of a gay writer and his captor, produced in 1996, won various awards including best direction at Mar del Plata Film Festival. The next two years saw him revisiting his favorite genre and the results are two documentaries: DEMOLITION AND RELOCATION, 1998, a winner of the 3rd “Asia Now” TV Documentary Proposals Competition, and CRAZY ENGLISH, 1999, which won the Best Documentary award at the 2nd Filmmakers Film Festival, Milan, Italy.
In 1999 Zhang Yuan also directed a feature film SEVENTEEN YEARS, a family drama of hate, crime and reconciliation, which won the Best Director award at the 56th Venice Film Festival. 2002 was his most productive year: he directed three films: JIANG JIE, a cinematic version of a revolutionary Beijing Opera of the same title; I LOVE YOU, an urban romantic drama; and GREEN TEA, a romantic mystery. Zhang is also an active MTV producer and director. His direction of Cui Jian’s WILD IN THE SNOW won the Best Asian MTV Award at the American MTV Awards in 1991. His A PIECE OF RED CLOTH won a Special Mention at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Awards. Zhang Yuan was selected by TIME MAGAZINE in 1994 as one of the hundred young world leaders for the next century.
2012 BEIJING FLICKERS (YOU ZHONG)
2008 DADA’S DANCE (DADA)
2006 LITTLE RED FLOWERS (KAN SHANG QU HEN MEI)
2002 GREEN TEA (LU CHA)
2002 JIANG JIE (JIANG JIE)
2002 I LOVE YOU (WO AI NI)
2000 HAINAN HAINAN (HAINAN HAINAN)
2000 MISS JIN XING (JIN XING XIAOJIE)
1999 SEVENTEEN YEARS (GUONIAN HUIJIA)
1999 CRAZY ENGLISH (FENGKUANG YINGYU)
1998 DEMOLITION AND RELOCATION (DING ZI HU)
1996 EAST PALACE, WEST PALACE (DONG GONG, XI GONG)
1995 SONS (ERZI)
1994 THE SQUARE (GUANGCHANG)
1992 BEIJING BASTARDS (BEIJING ZAZHONG)
1990 MAMA (MAMA)