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Crude Oil

7.3

22

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Original title: Caiyou riji
Year: 2008
Running time: 840 min.
Country: China
Director: Wang Bing
Screenwriter: Wang Bing
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: Wang Bing, Huang Wenhai, Yuedong Zhang
Producer: Wang Bing Studios
Genre: Documentary | Job/Employment
Synopsis: Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, it follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine. Like Wang's debut feature — the nine-hour Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks — Crude Oil is notable for its extreme length, running 840 minutes (14 hours). The original plan called for a 70-hour film, but Wang felt compelled to exert additional editorial control and reduced the work to its present length. The director himself came down with severe altitude sickness and left the location three days into the one-week shoot; his crew completed the remainder without him.

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Crude Oil

2008

Wang Bing

7.3

(22)