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Original title:Tientsin Diaries
Category:Movie / Documentary / Short
Released:2006
Director:Serge Gregory,Serge Gregory
Actors:Chad Jennings,Emma Jones
Writer:Serge Gregory
Duration:30min
Video type:Movie

Rating 8.0: Votes 603

2006 Chad Jennings Emma Jones Serge Gregory Serge Gregory

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A fictional documentary about the courtship of Misha and Natasha, whose Oriental idyll begins to unravel with the outbreak of WWII.

In the 1930's Westerners in Tientsin's European concessions lived an exotic adventure largely insulated from the horrors of China's civil war and Japanese occupation. Tientsin Diaries is a fictional documentary about the courtship of Misha and Natasha, whose Oriental idyll begins to unravel with the outbreak of WWII. Using actors, family photographs and newsreels, the film recreates the lost world of Russian exiles against the backdrop of the collapse of pre-revolutionary China.

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Author: krot

Shot in black and white, this is a hauntingly beautiful record of some of the foreign community in Tientsin, China, before the Communist revolution swept away that world forever. Although fiction, it maintains a scrupulous fidelity to historical fact, unlike so many other films of this genre (Empire of the Sun, The White Countess).

The film moves along in the present tense - and the viewer with it. Like its characters, we can look back, but cannot know what lies ahead. Using old documentary film, Gregory melds the motion picture with the still photographs which record the life of this vanished community. Skillful editing and camera play bring these still photos to life, and together with excellent voice actors, meld the story into a seamless tale.

A masterful film.

Credited cast:
	Chad Jennings	-	Misha (voice)
	Emma Jones	-	Natasha (voice)

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