Category: Chinese Culture

Dorando Petri’s feats have contributed to making sport a modern epic with winners and losers, drama and small and large heroes. His legendary story is adventurous, having kept his ideals like a true sportsman. Born in a poor family in Carpi, Dorando Pietri has always loved running. His dream comes true when he is selected for the marathon at the Olympic Games in London, the 24th of July 1908. Whereas one by one the other athletes collapse, Dorando instead moves along in the race. A little less than a kilometre from the finish line he is alone in the lead. Exhausted by the race he is in a state of confusion and takes the wrong direction!多兰多•皮特里的的传奇故事充满了顽强进取的色彩，他拥有真正的运动员的理想。出生于意大利卡尔皮一个贫困家庭的多兰多从小就酷爱跑步。在1908年7月24日的伦敦奥运会马拉松比赛上，他实现了成为奥运选手的梦想。当其他选手一个接一个地倒下，多兰多却一直在坚持。在离终点不到一公里的时候，已经只有他一人独自领先了。他筋疲力尽，意识模糊之中竟然朝着相反的方向跑去。等待他的会是怎样的一个结局？

一座城池 导演: 孙渤涵
编剧: 孙渤涵；韩寒
主演: 房祖名 王太利
类型: 喜剧
语言: 汉语普通话
上映日期: 2013-09-18(中国大陆)
故事梗概:
电影讲述从学校肄业的“我（林夕）”（房祖名饰）因为一次群架事件，和朋友“健叔”（王太利饰）从上海逃到了一个城镇。健叔是高我一年级的同学，我 们住在长江旅馆里，整日在这个城市里闲晃。后来我们认识了新朋友王超，从此，王超和他的桑塔纳就和我们混在了一起。故事将青年人的无奈、茫然、彷徨与尴尬 表现的淋漓尽致，就好像一直在寻找着一条路，然而最后发现路就在脚下。
The Ideal City
Director: Sun Bohan
script by: Sun Bohan Hanhan
Actors: Jaycee Fong, Wang Taili
Type: Comedy
Language: Standard Chinese
Release date: September 18th, 2013
Lin Xi is fed up with life in Shanghai's underbelly. A final gang fight sends him looking for better prospects elsewhere, with best friend Jianshu. After putting enough distance between themselves and Shanghai's chaos, the two wind up at the Yangtze River Hotel. The tranquility of the area is in stark contrast to the city they once called home, but then memories of Shanghai start to plague Lin Xi as he and his friends drift aimlessly around this peaceful town. Running away from Shanghai didn't solve any problems, it just presented new ones, and they look for a way out of feeling lost. 

Director: Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli 1947 This epic drama begins in 1930s Shanghai: poor but honest Su Fen (Bai Yang) and Zhang Zhongliang (Tao Jin) meet in the factory wher they work. They marry and live with Zhang's parents in one room of a small house. Zhong Liang's brother and sister-in-law work for the revolution in the northeast. As the Japanese Army approaches Shanghai, Zhong Liang flees to Chongqing with Nationalist sympathizers-namely a Miss Wang Lizhen (Shangguan Yunzhu).
Unable to contact his family for months, Zhong Liang has no idea that his father has died and his wife has borne him a son. In fact, his new life in Chongqing keeps him so busy that he forgets about his family left behind in wartime Shanghai, and eight years pass without contact between them. While Zhong Liang works his way up the ladder of success by using Miss Wang's guanxi, Su Fen, her child and mother-in-law slip deeper and deeper into poverty.
At the end of the war, homelessness and starvation threaten Su Fen and her family. Assuming that Zhong Liang has died in the war, she goes out to find work. But with her previous experience as a factory worker, Su Fen can only find work as a maid in the home of a wealthy Shanghai family that have just returned from Chongqing. The family turn out to be relatives of Miss Wang, now Zhong Liang's spoiled and jealous wife. When Miss Wang and Zhong Liang return to Shanghai, Miss Wang's cousin throws a large party at which Sun Fen must serve the guests. Finally, she comes face to face with her long lost husband, now married into a wealthy, bourgeois family.
The last half hour of the film sees Zhong Liang struggling to pacify his spoiled wife while his impoverished family waits in the wings for him to recognize their existence. Distraught and heartbroken, Su Fen heads to the Bund with her son in tow…
A prime example of Shanghai's leftist film-making past, The Spring River Flows East stars two of the biggest female stars of that era: Bai Yang and Shangguan Yunzhu. Bai revels in the melodramatic role of Su Fen, while Shangguan's role as the spoiled playgirl challenges the likes of Alex in Fatal Attraction – but 50 years earlier.
Despite the melodrama and rather obvious bourgeoisie versus proletariat plot line, The Spring River remains nothing less than a masterpiece. The diversity of Shanghai society at that time is revealed in this film that captures the imagination for the entire playing time of 3 hours.