“The World” is a theme park on the outskirts of Beijing, sixteen kilometers from the Chinese capital, designed around scaled representations of the world’s famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower or the Leaning Tower of Pisa.The site is seen here not from the visitors’ point of view but through the eyes of a few of its staff, lonely people, communicating poorly, a bit disillusioned with life, glittering for the tourists but dull and restricted as far as they are concerned. We meet, among others, pretty young dancer Tao and Taisheng, a security guard who is fond of her but not of personal commitment…
Release Date: 15 April 2005Runtime: 105 min
Stars:
- Alla Shcherbakova
- Hongwei Wang
- Jing Dong Liang
- Juan Iu
- Jue Jing
- Sanming Han
- Shuai Ji
- Taishen Cheng
- Tao Zhao
- Wan Xiang
- Xiaodong Liu
- Xiaoshuai Wang
- Yiqun Huang
- Zhong-wei Jiang
Director: Zhangke Jia
