China during the Cultural Revolution: A man escapes from a labor camp in desolate
Northwest China, just to watch the newsreel in a village cinema,
in which his daughter is to be seen. But he arrives too late for the performance and finds out
only that the rolls of film are now being taken to the next village, where another one is already
Village community eagerly awaits the weekly film screening. Marriage the
refugee makes his way to the next village, he witnesses how a vagabond
stolen from the rolls of film. A cat and mouse game begins, in which of all things
the film reel of the newsreel is heavily soiled. He promises the only salvation
Projector “Mr. Movie”, the pollute with the help of the entire village community
to clean and dry the roll of film carefully.
One second by the Chinese director Zhang Yimou is a declaration of love to the
magic of analogue cinema and tells of the magic of celluloid with bittersweet humour.
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