Revolution dies in a hospital bed, but the dream keeps kicking.
Student rebels, labor organizers, Trotskyites, anarchists, sojourners in Paris, and human rights activists are the cast of real-life characters featured in THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WU ZHONG XIAN. Based on a stage play, this DV feature traces the poignant trajectory of a rebel whose dream of world revolution first landed him in battles against British colonialism in the 70s, and later on his deathbed in the mid-90s, in agonies over the uncertain fate of a revitalized China. Revealing a little-known chapter of rebellion and idealism, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WU ZHONG XIAN is a timely, resonant docu-drama for today's Hong Kong, China, and our ideologically-disillusioned era.
Direction
Evans Chan stages intimate theatre within urgent documentary.
Acting
Mok Chiu-Yu embodies decades of exhausted radicalism.
Director
Evans Chan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
John Woo's cameo as himself bridges Hong Kong's action cinema glory with its activist underground.
Shot on DV in 2003, this captures Hong Kong's pre-handover anxiety and post-handover reckoning in real time.
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