Symphony of the Heaven City

synopsis

A story of contrasts between past and present, life and death, in Shanghai, the biggest city of the People’s Republic of China. The film depicts national commemorations as a way of sanitizing and forgetting the past, the importance of spectacle in the creation of a national consciousness. In criticizing histories and wars built on nationalism and in depicting the growth of capitalism, the symbolic fireworks ironically celebrate the present as a memory of the Second World War, introducing an avant-garde way of experimental historical documentation.

Detail:
The only human sound  is a baby's cry, a Weltschmerz, in the ruins of the old Shanghai South Railway Station on “Bloody Sunday” after the Japanese bombing in August 1937.

film details

director:	Lordan Zafranović
producer:	Aleksandar Janković, Gavrilo Azinović, Svetlana Bandić
photography:	Vojislav Popović
editing:	Petar Jakonić
music:	Milena Slepcević
sound:	Velibor Hajduković, Nebojsa Zorić

contact

Croatian Film Association / Marija Ratković Vidaković / Tuškanac 1 /  Zagreb / Croatia / 10 000 / +3851 484 8771 / marija.ratkovic.vidakovic@hfs.hr / http://hfs.hr/