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Troubled Laughter
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Wikipedia article
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|producer=Xu Songlin
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|runtime=92 minutes
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'Troubled Laughter' is a 1979 Chinese drama film directed by Yang Yanjin and Deng Yimin, set in the Cultural Revolution. The film stars Li Zhiyu as Fu Bin, a powerless newspaper writer who struggles with his conscience during an age of pervasive dishonesty and immorality from the top on down. It was screened out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
*Li Zhiyu as Fu Bin, a writer working for the 'Haicheng Daily'
*Pan Hong as Fu Bin's devoted wife, a schoolteacher
*Gong Fei as Fu Bin's young daughter
*Shi Jiufeng as Fu Bin's colleague and old acquaintance
*Cheng Zhi as 'Haicheng Daily's chief editor, an ass-kisser
*Yuan Yue as Song Abao, Haicheng's Communist Party secretary, a scheming lowlife
*Bai Mu as disgraced professor of surgery
*Qiao Qi as Fu Bin's former professor in journalism
*Qin Yi as the wife of Fu Bin's former professor, a former actress
*Fu Hengzhi as failing medical student-turned-heartless hospital leader
*Qiu Shisui as a sympathizing doctor
*Hong Zhaosen as secretary
References
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