Platform
2000 · Movie · 155 min · ★ 7.1 · 78% critics
China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s unfold through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe. Their shared stage life reflects shifting times and personal choices over a sweeping period.
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Streaming on The Criterion Channel.
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Details
- Original title
- 站台
- Years
- 2000
- Release date
- 2001-08-29
- Language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 155 min
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (100 votes)
About
If you like character-driven historical dramas with life inside a troupe, Platform delivers a sweeping, human view of change; Not for you if you want a fast, plot-heavy thriller or something like Youth or Still Life.
Pros: sweeping historical scope; intimate character focus; vivid performance energy | Cons: uneven pacing; limited genre variety; heavy historical context
Themes
- china
- cultural revolution
- theatre group
- 1980s
- maoism
Cast & crew
Zhao Tao
as Yin Ruijuan
Wang Hongwei
as Cui Minliang
Liang Jingdong
as Chang Jun
- YL
Yang Lina
as Zhong Pin
Han Sanming
as Sanming
- WB
Wang Bo
as Yao Eryong
Directed by Jia Zhangke