Last Train Home

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Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as an astonishing 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the largest human migration on the planet – an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.

Working over several years in classic verité style Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan (with the producers of the hit documentary Up the Yangtze) travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. Like so many of China s rural poor, Zhang Changhua and Chen Suqin left behind their two infant children for grueling factory jobs. Their daughter Qin – now a restless teenager – both bitterly resents their absence and longs for her own freedom away from school, much to the utter devastation of her parents.

Emotionally powerful and starkly beautiful, the multi-award-winning Last Train Home‘s intimate observation of one fractured family sheds unprecedented light on the human cost of China’s economic ‘miracle’.

SPECIAL FEATURES
– Stunning new anamorphic transfer, created from HD elements
– Deleted Scenes from Guangzhou Train Station
– Travelogue: Guang’an to Shenzhen City
– U.S. Theatrical Trailer
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.6 x 5.3 x 7.5 inches; 3.35 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ unknown
Director ‏ : ‎ Lixin Fan
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 25 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ February 22, 2011
Actors ‏ : ‎ Zhang Changhua, Chen Suqin, Zhang Qin, Zhang Yang, Tang Tingsui
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Producers ‏ : ‎ Mila Aung-Thwin, Daniel Cross
Studio ‏ : ‎ Zeitgeist Films
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004DMIJ0E
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1