Midnight

Overview

In 1930's Shanghai, Wu Sunpu, chief executive of the Shanghai Yuhua Silk Company, faces many struggles: with plant workers, with strikers, others in his industry, and most of all with bourgeois comprador Zhao Botao. Capitalists and other figures in Shanghai's industrial and commercial community come and go. The strategy finally comes down between Wu and Zhao. Zhao plans to take over Wu Sunpu's plant with support from Americans. Wu faces a choice of surrender to Zhao or bankruptcy. He considers suicide, but decides to go on vacation with his wife on Mount Lushan. When they leave Shanghai at midnight, Wu paces the deck of the ship, reviewing his life and fate.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1981

Original language

Chinese

Spoken languages

Chinese

Cast

Qiao Qi,Gu Yelu,Li Rentang,Han Fei

Director

Sang Hu

Writer

Sang Hu,Jinggong Fu,Mao Dun

Cinematography

Qiu Yiren

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0856057