Completed - MANDARIN - Comedy, Drama - 96 minutes
Fake Fiction is Xu Zheng’s follow-up after 'Lost in Thailand', the most successful comedy movie ever in China– it's an homage and love letter to Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 classic, Modern Times.
Year of production : 2013 Director(s) : Xiaoli SHAO, Peng DU Cast : Zheng XU, Zifeng ZHANG
Xu Zheng – who bears a facial resemblance to Chaplin and has the same elastic expressiveness – plays Ou Dawei, a down-on-his luck con artist and trickster who peddles himself as a ‘conjurer’. It’s a quack’s life if ever there was one, but his rakish ways are stopped in their tracks when one day, he is approached by an eight-year-old girl, Diu Diu (Zhang Zifeng) who claims to be his daughter. When his partner-in-crime Wenxue (Wang Taili) cuts and runs with the money for an upcoming performance, leaving Ou high and dry, he must find a way to do the show without her – and with his daughter in tow.
Country(ies) : CHINA