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Original title: Along the Railway
Year: 2000
Running time: 94 min.
Country: China
Director: Du Haibin
Screenwriter: Du Haibin
Cast: Documentary
Producer: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Genre: Documentary | Poverty
Synopsis: Banned in China, this important, patient documentary follows a year in the life of the sidings dwellers - Sheep, Sly, Lanzhong, Ironstick Li and others - who eke out a living, begging, foraging, stealing and sleeping rough near the Baoji railway station in Shaanxi province. The director has clearly won their confidence and conducts a series of extraordinary interviews that illicit a range of very moving tales revealing not only a gamut of problems - from child abuse (some are no more than 9 years old), through loss of work, to psychological illness - but also the dwellers' determined hopes and dreams. [from TimeOut Film Guide]

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Along the Railway

2000

Du Haibin