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.
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