Platform

Famine meets Waiting for Godot in a freezing Sichuan theater. A 1970s troupe survives on thin rehearsal rations while state parades eat the village’s lunch. The troupe’s post-revolution party trick? A human stack whose collapse decides who eats next. Jia Zhangke’s quarter-century time capsule rides on a single communal meal the actors keep dropping.

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Jia Zhangke directed Platform in 2001. See Jia Zhangke's full filmography, where to start with Jia Zhangke, or where to go after you've seen everything by Jia Zhangke.

Platform was released in 2001 (ZH original-language production), with a runtime of 155 minutes.