The Way

The Way

Arizona International Film Festival program film description: The hero of the film is a sixty-year old man from Sichuan, Liu Zhixian, who arrived to Budapest in 1990 at the time of an influx of Chinese immigrants to Hungary. Tens of thousands of Chinese people came to the country in those day in the hope of a better life. Mr. Liu has gone through many hard years and humiliation and is now seeking love in Budapest. Although a university professor, he is now an administrator at a Chinese market in Budapest occasionally selling newspapers, renting a small room on a housing estate where he is dreaming about love. All his attempts at finding a companion failed. However, Mr. Liu is not willing to give up hope and turns to an agency in China seeking a wife. He is preparing excitedly to meet Miss Wu in Beijing who seems to be interested in his quest. He is due to have another meeting with his son whom he hasn't seen for a long time. This documentary is the true story of a much suffered Chinese intellectual who tries to find the meaning of life and happiness in his declining years.

Video (VHS)

Documentary

FEST 1998 FILMS - BOX 1

1997

84 minutes

Ferenc Moldovanyi, Fabrice Puchault

Ferenc Moldovanyi

Liu Zhixian, Liu Yanghe

Hungary, France