Beijing Bicycle

Beijing Bicycle simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Sh Q Su de Dnch literally seventeenyearolds bicycle or seventeenyearold bachelor is a 2001 Chinese drama film by Sixth Generation Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai, with joint investment from the Taiwanese Arc Light Films and the French Pyramide Productions. The film stars firsttime actors Cui Lin and Li Bin, supported by the already established actresses Zhou Xun and Gao Yuanyuan. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival onFebruary 2001 and won the Jury Grand Prix, but was subsequently banned in Mainland China. The ban was eventually lifted in 2004.

Guei played by Cui Lin is a seventeenyearold country boy who came to Beijing to make a living. Along with a number of other boys from the country, Guei finds employment with a courier company, which assigns them brandnew bicycles for use in their deliveries. The company manager Xie Jian announces to them that since the bicycles do not yet belong to them, they will only earn twenty percent of the commission. But once they have made enough deliveries to earn the bicycles, their share will be raised to fifty percent. Within two months Guei has made enough to earn his bicycle. However, on the day that Guei is due to take over the ownership, the bicycle is stolen while he is picking up a document. The manager fires Guei for neglecting to deliver the package, but, upon the latters pleas, agrees to take him back if he succeeds in recovering his bicycle.At the other end of the city, Jian Li Bin is a seventeenyearold schoolboy who longs for a bicycle of his own so he can ride with Xiao Gao Yuanyuan, the girl he fancies. His hopes are dashed when his father Zhao Yiwei delays buying a bicycle for him yet again so that his younger stepsister Rong Rong Zhou Fanfei can go to a prestigious school. This frustrates Jian, who steals some money from his family and pays 500 yuan to a secondhand dealer for a bicyclethe one that used to belong to Guei. ........

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