The Marriage Certificate

Overview

The wife of a prominent psychiatrist can't find her marriage certificate one day. This "jiehunzheng" is all important. Without it, the family officially has never existed, including the daughter. The couple go on a wild goose chase through the Chinese bureaucracy, meeting catch-22 all the way....they need a certificate to get a new one, etc. They even journey back to the People's Commune where they met, now the site of modern private enterprises where nobody even recalls the former occupants.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 2001

Original language

Chinese

Spoken languages

Chinese

Countries

China

Cast

Wang Jinsong,Xiangjin Luo,Gong Jinghua,Lü Liping,Niu Zhen-Hua,Feng Xiaogang,Cui Qianmei,Zhou Tao,Li Xiaomeng,Fu Biaoand 3 more

Director

Huang Jianxin

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0308559