Beijing Bicycle (十七岁的单车 / Shí qī suì de dān chē) (2001)
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12 years, 5 months ago at Nov 22 11:34
A young man from rural China struggles to make good in Beijing in this drama, which suggests an updated and relocated variation on the neorealist classic Ladri di Biciclette. Guei (Cui Lin) is a teenager who arrives in the big city looking for work; he and a handful of other youngsters are hired as bicycle messengers, with their employer giving them new mountain bikes under the condition that they... read more
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" Director: Wang Xiaoshuai Starring: Cui Lin, Li Bin, Zhou Xun, Gao Yuanyuan, Li Shuang, Xie Jian, Zhao Yiwei, Zhou Fanfei and Liu Lei A young country boy, Guei, comes to the big city determined to make it. He soon finds a job as a bike messenger in which he gets a percentage of each delivery, working hard to build up enough credit to own the bike for himself. The bike is stolen and winds up in the hands of Jian, a poor city boy who sees the bike as his way to make friends and impress the girl "
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