- Platform (film)
Infobox Film
name = Platform
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director =Jia Zhangke
producer =
writer =Jia Zhangke
narrator =
starring =Wang Hongwei
Zhao Tao
Liang Jingdong
music =Yoshihiro Hanno
cinematography =Yu Lik-wai
editing =Kong Jinglei
distributor = United States:
Empire PicturesNew Yorker Films (DVD)
United Kingdom:Artificial Eye
released = Venice:September 4 ,2000
United States:March 14 ,2001 (limited)
United Kingdom:August 2 ,2002
runtime = 154 min./193 min. (VFF)
country = China
language = Mandarin
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gross =
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imdb_id = 0258885"Platform" (zh-cp|c=站台|p=Zhàntái) is a 2000
film written and directed byJia Zhangke . The film is named after a popular song about waiting at a railway platform.It is set in and around the small city of
Fenyang ,Shanxi province,China , from the end of 1970s to the beginning of 1990s. Fenyang was also the birthplace of director Jia Zhangke. The film is called "an epic ofgrassroots ".It follows a group of twenty-something performers as they face personal and societal changes.
Dialogue is a mixture of local speech, mainly
Jin Chinese andStandard Mandarin .Main cast
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Wang Hongwei - Cui Minliang
*Zhao Tao - Yin Ruijuan
*Liang Jingdong - Zhang Jun
*Yang Tianyi - Zhong Ping
* Wang Bo - Yao EryongAwards and nominations
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Venice Film Festival , 2000
**Golden Lion - nominee
** Netpac Award
*Nantes Three Continents Festival , 2000
** Golden Montgolfiere
*Singapore International Film Festival , 2000
** SFC Young Cinema Award
** Silver Screen Award-Best Asian Feature Film (nominated)
*Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema , 2001
** Best Film
*Fribourg International Film Festival , 2001
** Don Quixote Award
** FIPRESCI PrizeExternal links
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