张艺谋：中国故事剧情介绍

Director of Ju Dou, Red Sorghum and Raise the Red Lantern is interviewed from within China whilst making a commercial for Philip Morris (China is one of the largest consumers of cigarettes in the world). IMDB This one has clips from Red Sorghum, Ju Dou, Raise The Red Lantern and interviews with various people including Communist Party functionaries and Zhang’s parents. It puts his work into a historical context and tells of his exile to the country as a child during Mao’s disastrous experiments in social engineering with the Chinese people. Made for the BBC’s Arena series.