Ban Lu

Lüliang ying xiong

Yi Lin, Ban Lu

Yuntai Guo, Baiwan Li

Militiaman in Lü Liang Shan actively organize to fight enemies.

未完成的喜剧

Ban Lu

Langen Han, Xiucen Yin

Two famous comedians from pre-Revolution days perform a series of sketches in a theatre for a group of Party cadres. The stage performances blend over into absurdist, self-contained fantasy episodes where the two comics allegorically parody Party propaganda and ideological orthodoxy.

Xin ju zhang dao lai zhi qian

Ban Lu

Yan Han, Jingbo Li

Directed by Ban Lu.

十字街头

Shen Xiling

Zhao Dan, Yang Bai

Four students in Shanghai have recently finished university. All are unemployed. Xu contemplates suicide but his friend Zhao talks him out of it. Zhao lives in a shabby room with just a flimsy wall of planks separating him from the room behind. Miss Yang, in town to take a factory job, moves in behind. Her nails into the wall knock Zhao's photos down. The unseen neighbours start playing tit for tat... Zhao gets a job as proofreader at a newspaper. He sees that pretty girl on the tram to work every day. He doesn't know her, but it's Miss Yang... Zhao is assigned to cover labour conditions for the paper. He is sent to a factory, the one where Miss Yang works...

桥

Bin Wang

Chen Qiang, Defu Du

Factory workers in 1947 repair a bridge over Song Hua River so that Communist forces can use it.

青年进行曲

Shi Dongshan

Chao Shi, Manli Xu

六号门

Ban Lu

Zhenqing Guo, Ziping Li

После освобождения Северо-Восточного Китая в 1948 году цены в городе под управлением Гоминьдана взлетели до небес. Правители Гоминьдана вступили в сговор друг с другом и попытались вывезти большое количество товаров за границу. В то же время портовые рабочие не получали заработную плату в течение 16 дней, и они присоединяются к уже бастующим докерам у ворот № 6…

无形的战线

Ming Yi

Ping Zhang, Ban Lu

Invisible Battlefront

Buju xiaojie de ren

Ban Lu

Mu Bai, Wansu Huang

Lu Ban's second short titled The Man Who Doesn’t Bother about Trifles (不拘小节的人 bùjū xiǎojié de rén). He carefully toned down the political satire here, switching his target to intellectuals instead of bureaucrats. The main character, Li Shaobai, is a rude literary critic who goes to a conference to lecture about satirical literature. Li is absolutely full of himself, and constantly misunderstands other people. Like Before the New Director Arrives, The Man Who Doesn’t Bother about Trifles was greeted with plenty of positive responses. Still, while Lu tried to be more careful with this second short, this didn’t stop some critics from taking issue with its ridiculous main character and humor.