Umbrella (DVD) (Taiwan Version) DVD Region All

Premiering in the Horizons section of the 64th Venice Film Festival, Mainland Chinese documentary Umbrella presents a cross-section of life in present-day China through the eyes and experiences of different social groups. Using the umbrella as a thematic and visual link, the documentary travels around the country - following poor workers at an umbrella factory in industrial southern China, a farmer-turned-entrepreneur in eastern China, graduates struggling to find jobs in Shanghai, rural recruits seeking a new life in the army, and finally elderly peasants in a quiet village where all the young people have left for better places. Up-and-coming director Du Haibin's camera realistically and unobtrusively captures a slice of modern China, and the dreams, fears, and challenges that drive different generations to different places.

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Product Title:	Umbrella (DVD) (Taiwan Version) 傘… (DVD) (台灣版) 伞… (DVD) (台湾版) 傘… (台湾版) Umbrella (DVD) (Taiwan Version)
Release Date:	2009-06-04
Language:	Mandarin
Subtitles:	English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian
Country of Origin:	China
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Aspect Ratio:	1.78 : 1
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	All Region What is it?
Duration:	93 (mins)
Publisher:	Himalaya Records Corporation (TW)
Package Weight:	120 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1020326276

Zhongshan, Guangdong Province. Many young off-farm workers are busy working for orders of next year. They try to earn as much money as possible; but in fact, even that is rther slim. They have no idea how much an umbrella earns for others.

Yiwu, Zhejiang Province. Some of local inhabitants are engaging in umbrella wholesable business in the newly constructed gigantic building, the so-called World's Largest small Commodity Market. Now they are nouveaux riches, there seems no longer any relationship between the term "Farmers" and their current status.

Shanghai. Young college graduates who came from farmer families have to face ruthless reality of hunting for a job in a ferocious competitive market. No job found in the city means going back to the countryside, then all their previous efforts wasted.

PLA garrison in a Province. Becoming a solider is merely one of the options for a farmer to move to a different status, their ultimate goal is to change their own destiny.

One village in Luoyang, Henan Province. All young farmers have left for working in other cities; only children, women and elder peopole are still living here. Only an elder is talking solitarily to the camera.

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