Getting Home
| Getting Home | |
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| Directed by | Zhang Yang |
| Produced by |
Stanley Tong Er Yong Zhang Yang |
| Written by | Zhang Yang Wang Yao |
| Starring |
Zhao Benshan Song Dandan Guo Degang Hu Jun Xia Yu Wu Ma |
| Music by | Dou Peng |
| Cinematography |
Yu Lik-wai Lai Yiu-fai |
| Edited by | Yang Hongyu |
| Distributed by |
Worldwide: Fortissimo Films |
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Release date
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Hong Kong: January 25, 2007 Berlin: February 11, 2007 |
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Running time
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90 min. |
| Country |
PR China Hong Kong |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese |
Getting Home (simplified Chinese: 落叶归根; traditional Chinese: 落葉歸根; pinyin: Lùo yè gūi gēn) is a 2007 Chinese comedy/drama film directed by Zhang Yang and starring Chinese comedian Zhao Benshan. It is episodic and follows two workers in their 50s, Zhao (Zhao Benshan) and Liu (Hong Qiwen). The film opens when Liu unexpectedly dies after a night of drinking and Zhao decides to fulfill a promise to his friend to get him home, beginning a long odyssey from Shenzhen to Chongqing with Liu's corpse on his back. Along the way, Zhao meets a variety of figures, played by several of China's better known character actors.
Getting Home is Zhang Yang's fifth feature film. It was produced by Filmko Entertainment of Hong Kong and the Beijing Jinqianshengshi Culture Media company of the People's Republic of China. International sales and distribution was by Fortissimo Films out of Amsterdam.
Getting Home's original title derives from a Chinese proverb meaning "A falling leaf returns to its roots." It is apparently based on a true story.
Originally titled Air,Getting Home was financed by Filmko Films and Fortissimo Films and produced by Peter Loehr (of Ming Productions and the Imar Film Company) and Wouter Barendrecht of Fortissimo. This marked the first collaboration between Zhang and Filmko but the fifth with Fortissimo.
Though the film documents Zhao's journey from Shenzhen to Chongqing, the majority of shooting took place in Yunnan, a Chinese province in the southwest.
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