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The Black Cannon Incident (Chinese: 黑砲事件; pinyin: Hēi Pào Shìjiàn) is a 1985 Chinese black comedy film satirizing the bureaucracy and paranoia of the Chinese authorities. Presented by Xi'an Film Studio and directed by Huang Jianxin , it stars Gao Ming , Gerhard Olschewski , and Liu Zifeng .
The Black Cannon Incident: Directed by Jianxin Huang. With Zifeng Liu, Ming Gao, Gerhard Olschewski, Hui Ge. Engineer Zhao Shuxin likes playing chess a lot. Once during his business trip, he loses a black cannon chessman which leads to unexpected consequences for him.
- (516)
- Comedy
- Jianxin Huang
- 1985
Oct 21, 2022 · On a business trip, lonely Zhao loses a chess piece that is precious to him, but his attempts to recover it prompt a series of unwarranted incidents that impact his job and his life.
- 99 min
- 1489
- AsianCineplex
A bumbling factory translator is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop.
THE BLACK CANNON INCIDENT is a biting satire of the Chinese Communist Party, a film with immense visual style and craft, a non-linear journey through misunderstanding and consequence, and an examination of China's simultaneous fascination and apprehension regarding foreign influence after the Cultural Revolution.
- (459)
- Xi'an Film Studio
- Huang Jianxin
The story basically tells how alert governmental cadres suspecting an innocent engineer simply because he wanted to find a Black Cannon of Chinese Chess: In Chinese Chess, one side is red and the other is black, and besides King, Horse, there are two Cannons.
The Black Cannon Incident (1985) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
