Once Upon a Time in Shanghai

2018

35m

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Overview

Welcome to Shanghai. No, not the Chinese megalopolis full of neon and nouveaux riches, but precisely the opposite: an eponymous slum in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. In the distance, skyscrapers built with oil money tower above the city, but here dilapidated houses are packed along a single railway line. The slum is scheduled for demolition, and now and again a child is killed by one of the freight trains slowly chugging by. When the German director Veit Helmer arrives in Shanghai to make a feature film, feelings quickly run high. The locals are afraid that he wants to make them look ridiculous. The young Azerbaijani filmmaker Leyli Gafarova succeeds however in gaining the inhabitants’ trust and films a choppy, playful portrait of Shanghai in the margins of the feature film production. In the guise of a making-of, she shows intimate fragments of life in the slum, while it’s still standing.

Status: Released

Language: AZ

Production Information

Production Countries

Azerbaijan Germany

Spoken Languages

Azerbaijani English French German

Quick Facts

Release Date	November 17, 2018
Status	Released
Language	AZ

Cast

Key Crew

Veit Helmer

Producer

Leyli Gafarova

Director

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