Wang Bing — Director (30)
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The Ditch (2011) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
夹边沟
6.8 (9 ratings) director: Wang Bing actor: Cheng Zhengwu / Niansong Jing …
other title: I dannati di Jiabiangou / A Fossa …
The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh life of these men, who coped with physical exhaustion, extreme cold, starvation and death on a daily basis.
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Youth (Spring) (2023) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
青春（春）
8.2 (13 ratings) director: Wang Bing actor: Hu Zuguo / Li Shengnan
other title: Jeunesse / Juventude (Primavera) …
This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run workshops producing children's clothes, mostly for the domestic market, but some also for export. The workshops employ around 300,000 migrant workers, chiefly from the rural provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangsu.
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Man in Black (2023) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb
Man in Black
director: Wang Bing actor: Wang Xilin
other title: 黑衣人
王西麟，这位中国最重要的现代古典音乐作曲家曾多次获得国家奖项以及国际赞誉。这部纪录片将会讲述他在早年动荡社会中所遭受的严重迫害，包括殴打、囚禁和酷刑等苦难历程。虽然经历了生活中的磨难，但他仍能够表达深切而真挚的怜悯之情。
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Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (2007) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
和凤鸣
director: Wang Bing actor: Fengming He
other title: Fengming, chronique d'une femme chinoise / 和凤鸣 …
The film consists almost entirely of an interview with the elderly He Fengming, recounting her experiences in post-1949 China.
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Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb Douban
铁西区
9.7 (7 ratings) director: Wang Bing
other title: Tie Xi Qu. Il distretto di Tiexi / À l'ouest des rails …
A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us to some of the workers affected by the closures, and to their families.
2000s china documentary wangbing
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青春：苦 (2024) [Movie] Douban NeoDB
director: 王兵
other title: 青春：第二部
《青春》将是长达9个多小时的三部曲，《春》、《苦》、《归》，第三部曲《归》甫完成后制，正回头进行第二部曲《苦》的剪辑工作，《春》里工厂青年的青春与活力，将随《苦》、《归》走往不同的人生方向。
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青春：归 (2025) [Movie] Douban NeoDB
director: 王兵
other title: 青春：第三部
《青春》将是长达9个多小时的三部曲，《春》、《苦》、《归》，第三部曲《归》甫完成后制，正回头进行第二部曲《苦》的剪辑工作，《春》里工厂青年的青春与活力，将随《苦》、《归》走往不同的人生方向。
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Dead Souls (2018) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
死靈魂
director: Wang Bing
other title: Die Seelen der Toten - Mingshui / Les Âmes mortes …
In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.
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Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 3: Rails (2003) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB
铁西区第三部：铁路
director: Wang Bing
other title: 铁西区第三部分：铁路
9 hour long film that details the slow decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. This third part narrows its focus to a single father and son who scavenge the rail yards in order to sell raw parts to the factories.
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Three Sisters (2012) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
三姊妹
director: Wang Bing
other title: Tre sorelle / Três Irmãs …
The masterful new documentary from Wang Bing is an intimate, observational portrait of a peasant family who eke out a humble existence in a small village set against the stunning mountain landscapes of China's Yunnan province.
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Youth (Homecoming) (2025) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB IMDb TMDB
青春（归）
8.9 (10 ratings) director: Wang Bing
other title: Juventude (Regresso a Casa) / Jeunesse (Retour au pays) …
Wang Bing concludes his monumental Youth trilogy in expansive fashion, giving ever wider scope to the lives of migrant workers in Zhili’s textile factories as they plan to go to their remote hometowns to visit their families and celebrate the festivities for New Year’s break.
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Youth (Hard Times) (2025) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
青春（苦）
9.2 (10 ratings) director: Wang Bing
other title: Juventude (Tempos Difíceis) / Jeunesse (Les Tourments) …
In this enveloping second part of the Youth trilogy, shot between 2015 and 2019, Wang Bing deepens his vérité portrait of a generation struggling to survive on meager wages amidst a nation’s economic expansion, emphasizing the distrustful, increasingly combative relationship between workers and management.
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'Til Madness Do Us Part (2014) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb
疯爱
director: Wang Bing
other title: Follia e amore / À la folie …
An insight into the everyday lives of 50 inmates of a mental institution in the Chinese province of Yunnan, who are there for killing someone, committing a crime against a public official, or have a developmental disability.
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'Til Madness Do Us Part (2014) [Movie]
疯爱
director: Wang Bing
other title: Follia e amore / 疯爱 …
An insight into the everyday lives of 50 inmates of a mental institution in the Chinese province of Yunnan, who are there for killing someone, committing a crime against a public official, or have a developmental disability.
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Man With No Name (2009) [Movie] NeoDB
无名者
director: 王兵
other title: 无名者 / L'Homme sans nom …
The character of this story lives far from the worlds of the material and the spirit. He has built his own subsistence conditions. He often goes to the neighboring villages, although he doesn’t communicate with other people. He collects some waste but doesn’t beg. He prowls about the ruins of deserted villages, as an animal or as a ghost. Under double political and economical pressure, most of people are depriving of their last dignity into a world where it exists a lack of material and spirit. But a human being stays a human being. He is looking for reasons to continue to live. —Wang Bing
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Man With No Name (2010) [Movie] TMDB
无名者
director: Wang Bing
other title: 无名者 / L'Homme sans nom
The character of this story lives far from the worlds of the material and the spirit. He has built his own subsistence conditions. He often goes to the neighboring villages, although he doesn’t communicate with other people. He collects some waste but doesn’t beg. He prowls about the ruins of deserted villages, as an animal or as a ghost. Under double political and economical pressure, most of people are depriving of their last dignity into a world where it exists a lack of material and spirit. But a human being stays a human being. He is looking for reasons to continue to live. —Wang Bing
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Bitter Money (2016) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
苦钱
director: Wang Bing
other title: Bitter verdient / Argent amer …
In a fast growing city of East China, migrants have been arriving and living for a dream of a better life. But what they find there is little opportunities and poor living conditions that push people, even couples, into violent and oppressive relations. Xiao Min, Ling Ling and Lao Yeh are some of the characters of this bitter chronicle of today China.
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Ta'ang (2016) [Movie] NeoDB
Ta'ang
director: 王兵 actor: Jin Xiaoda / Jin Xiaoman
other title: Ta'ang, un peuple en exil entre Chine et Birmanie / 德昂
The Ta'ang or Palaung people, an ethnic minority living in the mountainous area between Myanmar's Kokang region and China's Yunnan province, have historically suffered many forced migrations due to war. When their survival is threatened again in 2015, thousands of them flee across the border. Filmmaker Wang Bing accompanies them and becomes a privileged witness to a human story that is both a modern reportage and a mythical epic.
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Ta'ang (2016) [Movie] TMDB
Ta'ang
director: Wang Bing actor: Jin Xiaoda / Jin Xiaoman
other title: Ta'ang, un peuple en exil entre Chine et Birmanie
The Ta'ang or Palaung people, an ethnic minority living in the mountainous area between Myanmar's Kokang region and China's Yunnan province, have historically suffered many forced migrations due to war. When their survival is threatened again in 2015, thousands of them flee across the border. Filmmaker Wang Bing accompanies them and becomes a privileged witness to a human story that is both a modern reportage and a mythical epic.
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Crude Oil (2008) [Movie] NeoDB
A Journal of Crude Oil
director: 王兵
other title: 原油 / A Journal of Crude Oil …
Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.