Man in Black (2023)
Also Known As:
黑衣人
흑의인
Director:
Wang Bing
Country:
Chinese
Genres:
Documentary
Status:
Completed
Date aired:
2023
Summary:
Wang Xilin, 86, is one of China’s most important modern classical composers. During the Cultural Revolution he was the target of severe persecution, enduring beatings, imprisonment and torture. With excerpts from his Symphonies, he revisits for this film some of the horrifying events that still live on in his memory as testimony to an era that saw the dehumanization of the entire Chinese nation.