Children of the Dragon (1991)

Directed by

Peter Smith

Genre

drama

Country

Australia

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This miniseries follows people whose lives intersect during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. It is set in Beijing and Sydney and draws from a novel about that period.

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What happens

Based on the novel Avenue of Eternal Peace (the name of a road linking Tiananmen and Tiananmen Square) by Nicholas Jose, Children of the Dragon (alternatively titled Sign Of The Snake) is a 1992 BBC-Australian Broadcasting Corporation 4-part TV mini-series set against the background of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. It was shot at the ABC Frenchs Forest Studios and at the Sydney Showground. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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