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Bookmark this pageThe Black Cannon Incident (1985)
Director: Huang Jianxin
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From Time Out Film Guide
An inoffensive engineer comes under suspicion of industrial espionage. The Security Bureau finds plenty to worry over in his file: raised as a Catholic, never married, he'd had a mysterious argument with a visiting expert from Germany. And so he's packed off to the maintenance depot (where, of course, there is nothing to do) while a pea-brained investigation is launched. Take the resulting chaos as comedy or tragedy; either way, there's no doubt the Chinese ruling class comes in for an unsparing hammering. What's more, the film's political daring is matched by a torrent of bright ideas in the plotting, design and colour-control departments.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Huang Jianxin
Producer: Wu Tiangming, Manfred Durniok
Cast: Liu Zifeng, Gerhard Olschewski, Gao Ming, Wang Yi, Yang Yazhou, Ge Hui full cast
Duration: 99 mins
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