Trouble Makers (2006)

Original title

光荣的愤怒

Directed by

Cao Baoping

Genre

comedy drama, black comedy film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A village official tries to take down a corrupt local boss who runs the town with an iron fist. The film shows his difficult and dangerous struggle against the entrenched power structure.

tensedarkly comicgrittysuspensefulirreverentunsettlinggroundedfrustrating

What happens

Trouble Makers (simplified Chinese: 光荣的愤怒; traditional Chinese: 光榮的憤怒; pinyin: Guāngróngde fènnù; lit. 'Glorious Indignation') is a 2006 black comedy film written and directed by Cao Baoping. It was Cao's solo directorial debut, though Cao had previously co-directed the film Absolute Emotion in 2001. Based on Que Diwei's novella, "Village Operation," which was published in a magazine in 2000, Trouble Makers had difficulty traversing the Chinese censors and often found itself lacking funds until 2005. As a result, Cao eventually inserted a happy ending that differed from ending in the original novella. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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