Swan Song backdrop

Swan Song 1986 Directed by Zhang Zeming 绝响

Swan song with a chapter like structure, spans many years from the onset of the Cultural Revolution to the 'open door' policies of the late seventies and eighties. The focus is on how off screen national events impact on individual lives, here, those of an elderly composer with an opium habit who is in constant political trouble with the authorities and his son who dissociates himself from his father.

Country China
Production Country China
Language Mandarin
Spoken Language Mandarin
Gnere Drama
Production Company Pearl River Film Studio
Release Date 1 January 1986
103 mins