Casts & Crew
Zhenqing Guo
Ziping Li
Tian Xie
Xiaogong Li
Lin Li
Yongcai Liu
Kuiying Zhao
Shi-He Chen
Ying Zhang
Mingyin Feng
Yan Zhuang
Shi Li
Diao Zhou
Ying Liu
Cunzhuang Ge
Jialin Shen
Yin Liang
Zimin Zhao
Also Directed by Ban Lu
Two famous comedians from pre-Revolution days perform a series of sketches in a theatre for a group of Party cadres. The stage performances blend over into absurdist, self-contained fantasy episodes where the two comics allegorically parody Party propaganda and ideological orthodoxy.
Militiaman in Lü Liang Shan actively organize to fight enemies.
Lu Ban's second short titled The Man Who Doesn’t Bother about Trifles (不拘小节的人 bùjū xiǎojié de rén). He carefully toned down the political satire here, switching his target to intellectuals instead of bureaucrats. The main character, Li Shaobai, is a rude literary critic who goes to a conference to lecture about satirical literature. Li is absolutely full of himself, and constantly misunderstands other people. Like Before the New Director Arrives, The Man Who Doesn’t Bother about Trifles was greeted with plenty of positive responses. Still, while Lu tried to be more careful with this second short, this didn’t stop some critics from taking issue with its ridiculous main character and humor.
Directed by Ban Lu.