Director Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking – a city he was once only able to admire in books. The viewer is taken on a journey through this city, as if experiencing it from the mind and through the eyes of Marker.
Chris Marker leads us on a colorful and kinetic sojourn through a Maoist Peking in the forward-marching throes of modernization. This idealized vision of a nation—seen here in its shining displays of dances, acrobatics and child’s play—is filtered through the ever-curious mind of a roving auteur.
Spain
India
Malaysia
Togo
Trinidad & Tobago
Libya
Jamaica
Bahrain
Nicaragua
Slovenia
Niger
Kyrgyzstan
Mali
Uruguay
Georgia
Panama
Madagascar
Qatar
Malawi
Rwanda
Croatia
Honduras
Burkina Faso
Moldova
Palestinian Territories
Bosnia & Herzegovina
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Zambia
Bolivia
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Cameroon
Cuba
Mozambique
Serbia
Syria
Nepal
Guatemala
Dominican Republic
Congo - Kinshasa
Belarus
Sri Lanka
Hungary
Yemen
Greece
Switzerland
Czechia
Kenya
Tanzania
Ecuador
Uganda
Côte d’Ivoire
Sudan
Romania
Kazakhstan
Chile
Peru
Netherlands
Myanmar (Burma)
Uzbekistan
Iraq
Ethiopia
Algeria
Venezuela
Taiwan
Morocco
Ukraine
Colombia
Slovakia
Costa Rica
Oman
Kuwait
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Lithuania
Armenia
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Iceland
Cyprus
Afghanistan
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United Arab Emirates
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Vietnam
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Thailand
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