A Zebra-Riding Boy – dir. Xiaotian Fan, Juzhi Chen

Original Film Title: 纸骑兵

Director’s Name: Xiaotian Fan, Juzhi Chen

Writer’s Name: Xiaotian Fan, Huan Jiao

Producer: Cheng Jiang

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes

Film Description:

A Zebra-Riding Boy is an exploration of the combination of literature and commerce. Also it is the first film of the impressionism-southern author films, based on Su Tong’s novels Cavalryman and Paper.
Poor bowlegged teenager Zuo Lin has a little dream to ride a horse in the most prosperous place of the city: the sad wooden horse cavalry, the happy zebra cavalry, the bleak and sad iron cavalry, the brilliant paper cavalry all melt into one.

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