Last train home Gui tu lie che

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Title:

Last train home Gui tu lie che

Author:

Fan, Lixin, director.

Uniform Title:

Last train home (Motion picture : 2009)

Publication Information:

[New York] : Zeitgeist Video, [2009, 2011]

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (6 pages, folded-out)

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.

General Note:

Originally produced in 2009.

Extras: Deleted scenes, from Guangzhou Train Station (ca. 11 min.) -- Travelogue: Guang'an to Shenzhen City (ca. 5 min.) -- U.S. theatrical trailer.

Language:

Chinese

Subject Term:

Migrant labor -- China.

Migration, Internal -- China.

Rural-urban migration -- China.

Families -- China.

Genre:

Documentary films.