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Life of a Peking Policeman

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Original title

Wo zhe yi bei zi (Life of a Peking Policeman)

Year

1950

Running time

108 min.

Country

China

Director

Shi Hui

Screenwriter

Liuqing Yang. Novel: Lao-She

Cast

Music

Huang Yijun

Cinematography

Weiqin Ge, Fa Lin (B&W)

Producer

Wenhua Film Studio

Genre

Drama | Historical. 1910s. 1920s. 1930s. 1940s. Poverty

Synopsis

Shi Hui, driven to suicide in the ‘Anti-Rightist Purge’ of the late 1950s, was one of the greatest screen actors ever and a fine director. This adaptation of a short story by Lao She was probably his best work. An old man (Shi, who was 22 at the time) dying on the winter streets of Beijing, looks back over a lifetime of defeats, betrayals and humiliations, from his enlistment in the city’s police force in 1910 to his arrest and imprisonment in 1946 for trying to denounce an official who collaborated with the invading Japanese.

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Life of a Peking Policeman

1950

Shi Hui