Getting Home

Getting Home simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Lo y gi gn is a 2007 Chinese comedydrama film directed by Zhang Yang and starring Chinese comedian Zhao Benshan. It is episodic and follows two workers in their 50s, Zhao Zhao Benshan and Liu Hong Qiwen. The film opens when Liu unexpectedly dies after a night of drinking and Zhao decides to fulfill a promise to his friend to get him home, beginning a long odyssey from Shenzhen to Chongqing with Lius corpse on his back. Along the way, Zhao meets a variety of figures, played by several of Chinas better known character actors.

Originally titled Air, Getting Home was financed by Filmko Films and Fortissimo Films and produced by Peter Loehr of Ming Productions and the Imar Film Company and Wouter Barendrecht of Fortissimo. This marked the first collaboration between Zhang and Filmko but the fifth with Fortissimo.Though the film documents Zhaos journey from Shenzhen to Chongqing, the majority of shooting took place in Yunnan, a Chinese province in the southwest. ........

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