The Square (1994)

Original title

广场

Directed by

Zhang Yuan

Genre

documentary film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary films a day at Tiananmen Square in the early 1990s. It shows ordinary people doing daily activities in the public space.

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What happens

The Square is a 1994 Chinese documentary film directed by Zhang Yuan. It is Zhang's first true documentary film, after two documentary-influenced fiction films: Mama and Beijing Bastards. Filmed in black and white, The Square documents a day in the life of Tiananmen Square a few years after the events of 1989. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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