# Platform (2001)

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**Original title**: *站台*
**Runtime**: 155 min
**Genres**: Drama, History
**Directed by**: Jia Zhangke
**Written by**: Jia Zhangke
**Starring**: Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei, Liang Jingdong, Yang Lina, Han Sanming, Wang Bo

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, dread, slow-burn

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