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Dedicated to performance art, actors of this traveling theater in China lead a tough life on the road. The opera travels across China to perform. [Online until: 30 Dec 2018]
This film takes us on a journey through rural China with a traveling opera troupe. Filmed in the style of a documentary road movie, it leads us through the landscapes and isolated communities of northern China. Day after day, year after year, the actors travel to keep alive the «Jinju», an ancestral art that has for centuries played an essential role as popular entertainment. The troupe, led by Mr. Liu, specializes in popular works from classical Chinese opera - pieces that combine song, dance and acrobatics. Our documentary focuses largely on what goes on behind the scenes, as the actors don their masks and elaborate costumes and paint their faces in makeshift dressing rooms. We learn that the actors earn little more than the average itinerant worker and live out of their suitcases, never sure that they will find another role when the current tour is over. The vagaries of their precarious existence are offset to a certain extent by the adulation of the audience. And despite its ancient traditions, Jinju remains relevant today as its actors subtly highlight corruption and injustice in modern China.
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