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Shanghai Trance

The Netherlands
2008, 122min.

Prod.: Frans van Gestel, Jeroen Beker, Natacha Devillers, Script/Dir.: David Verbeek, Dir. of Phot.: Luo Dong, Music by: Lim Giong, Prod. Design: Yao Jun, Sound: Zhang Yang, Edit.: Sander Vos
Cast: Tygo Gernandt, Tian Yuan, Lv Yulai, Zhang Heng, Cheng Haofeng, Xiao Han

Shanghai Trance is a cinematic portrait of Shanghai in three layers. Each layer of the film explores a different social layer of the city. All stories are about people between the age of 20 and 30, hereby shaping the face of a generation. Young Dutch director made an (almost) entirely Chinese film. In a city where everything is new, an outsider is in any case no more out of place than the locals.

Production Company
Motel Films, Les Petites Lumieres
E-mail: natacha@petiteslumieres.com
www.petiteslumieres.com

Verbeek, David

David Verbeek (born 1980, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Verbeek studied film, photography and philosophy at the New School in New York and finished the regional education at the Dutch Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam. He currently works and lives in Shanghai.

Filmography
Claustrophobia (1998), Void (1999), Getting Closer (2000), Between Atmosphere (2001), Beat (2004), Yu-Lan (2004), Suicide Holiday (2005), Melody Z (2007), Shanghai Trance (2008).

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