Extras (2001)

Original title

群众演员

Directed by

Zhu Chuanming

Genre

documentary film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 12m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the lives of struggling film extras in China. It observes their daily routines and modest dreams while working in the margins of the film industry.

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What happens

Extras (Chinese: 群众演员; pinyin: qúnzhòng yǎnyuán) is a 2001 fly on the wall Chinese documentary film by director Zhu Chuanming. The documentary has been seen as tinged with social criticism in its observation of the lives and dreams of China's poorly paid film extras. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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