The Black Cannon Incident
- Original title
- Hei pao shi jian (The Black Cannon Incident)
- Year
- 1985
- Running time
- 96 min.
- Country
- China
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy | Black Comedy
- Synopsis
- An inoffensive engineer comes under suspicion of industrial espionage. The Security Bureau finds plenty to worry over in his file: raised as a Catholic, never married, he'd had a mysterious argument with a visiting expert from Germany. And so he's packed off to the maintenance depot (where, of course, there is nothing to do) while a pea-brained investigation is launched.
Take the resulting chaos as comedy or tragedy; either way, there's no doubt the Chinese ruling class comes in for an unsparing hammering. What's more, the film's political daring is matched by a torrent of bright ideas in the plotting, design and colour-control departments.- Movie Soulmates' ratings
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