Beijing Blues

The film rests on a true story. At its centre is a plainclothes policeman named Zhang Huiling. Zhang has worked in Beijing for more than ten years. The place he works is Shuangyushu, a community in the Haidian district. The work tells the stories of ordinary people trying to hold on in the metropolis. One feature of the film is its cast. The actors are not professionals but people known in the world of micro-blogs. Among them are the publisher Zhang Lixian and the folk singer Zhou Yunpeng. The screenwriter Shi Hang is in the cast as well. The film runs drama and crime together. Gao Qunshu’s Chinese film of 2012 runs a hundred and fourteen minutes.