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Title Last train home = Gui tu lie che / Telefilm Canada and the Rogers Group of Funds, through the Theatrical Documentary Program present ; an Eyesteelfilm production ; in association with ITVS International ; produced and developed in association with SuperChannel ; Channel 4 ; TV5 ; a film by Lixin Fan ; directed by Lixin Fan ; produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross ; in association with ITVS International.

Publication Info. [New York] : Zeitgeist Video, [2009]
©2011

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 Bloomfield at the Atrium  DVD FOREIGN 331.12 LAS    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 331.12 LAS    DUE 12-13-24
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 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Foreign Language  DVD 331.12 LAST    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD LAST TRAIN HOME    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - DVDs  DVD 331.12 LAST    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  FOREIGN FILM DVD LAST    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (6 pages, folded-out)
System Details DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; widescreen ; stereo.
Performer Changhua Zhang, Qin Zhang, Suqin Chen, Yang Zhang, Tingsui Tang.
Credits Editors, Lixin Fan, Mary Stephen ; director of photography, Lixin Fan ; music, Olivier Alary ; story editor, Daniel Cross.
Note Originally produced in 2009.
Audience Not rated.
Summary Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the largest human migration on the planet, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several years in classic verite, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades.
Note Guide includes Q&A with director Lixin Fan.
Extras: Deleted scenes, from Guangzhou Train Station (ca. 11 min.) -- Travelogue: Guang'an to Shenzhen City (ca. 5 min.) -- U.S. theatrical trailer.
Awards Winner, Best Documentary 2010, Los Angeles Film Critics ; Winner, Best Feature-length Documentary, 2009 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival ; Winner, Best Feature, 2010 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
Language Mandarin and Sichuan dialect dialogue ; optional English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Local Note WNPLFFDVD
Subject Migrant labor -- China.
Migration, Internal -- China.
Rural-urban migration -- China.
Families -- China.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Added Author Fan, Lixin. Director.
Aung-Thwin, Mila. Producer.
Cross, Daniel. Producer.
Zhang, Changhua. Interviewee.
Zhang, Qin. Interviewee.
Chen, Suqin. Interviewee.
Zhang, Yang.
Tang, Tingsui.
Alary, Olivier, 1975-
EyeSteelFilm (Firm)
Telefilm Canada.
Rogers Group of Funds.
Independent Television Service.
Channel Four (Great Britain)
TV5Monde (Television network)
SuperChannel (Television network)
Zeitgeist Films.
Added Title Gui tu lie che
Standard No. 795975113335
Music No. Z1133 Zeitgeist Films
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