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Ke Ke Xi Li (Mountain Patrol)

 

 

Directed by Lu Chuan

China-Tibet 2004 / Drama / Color /87 min / Dolby 5.1 / 1.85:1 / PAL / Optional English-Chinese Subtitles

DUO BU JIE, ZHANG LEI

The first Chinese Western adventure from The Missing Gun’s auteur Lu Chuan. Ke Ke Xi Li, a critically acclaimed film that is in competition in the upcoming Tokyo Film Festival, is a major Chinese production based on a gripping true story about a journalist who follows a band of volunteers trying to protect endangered antelopes from poachers hunting them down.

The volunteers defends the protected region of Ke Ke Xi Li in Tibet, however many poachers are ruthless and will stop at nothing to get what they want, including killing the volunteers. The area is rough, the enemy is well hidden, the air is thin…and as the tide turn against these selfless volunteer defenders, what will become of them as they are slowly outnumbered?


Ke Ke Xi Li means beautiful maiden and wonderful mountain in Mongolian. Ke Ke Xi Li, the Western-style adventure, is China's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2005 Oscars.