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Completed - MANDARIN - Thriller, Drama - 120 minutes

Log Line

In order to determine who's behind a failed assassination attempt, fivee intelligence officers are brought in for interrogation, and the only way for them to survive is to turn on each other.

Previous markets

  • AFM 2008 (Debut)
  • Berlin EFM 2009 (Debut)
  • Cannes 2009 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2009

Director(s) : Kuo-Fu CHEN, Qunshu GAO
Writer(s) : Kuo-Fu CHEN
Cast : Xun ZHOU, Bingbing LI, Xiaoming HUANG, Hanyu ZHANG

Producer(s) : Zhongjun WANG (Huayi Brothers Media Corp.)

Synopsis

1942 Nanking, the then capital city of China, has fallen into the hands of the Japanese where they established and controlled the puppet government. After various deadly attacks and military missions sabotaged by underground guerillas, it is evident that there has been leak of intelligence, and someone is working undercover for the revolutionists in the government. A group of unsuspecting officials are brought to a compound for interrogation, and as they are each served with torture and counter-intelligence tactics, they realize that no one will be able to leave until the snitch is identified, and the only way to survive is to turn on each other....

Production

Country(ies) : CHINA

Start of shooting : February 2009

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