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Jackie Chan and His Lost Family IFB 2003 TRACES OF THE DRAGON: Panorama Dokumente JACKIE CHAN AND HIS LOST FAMILY TRACES OF THE DRAGON TRACES OF THE DRAGON TRACES OF THE DRAGON Regie:Mabel Cheung Hongkong, China 2002 Dokumentarfilm Länge 96 Min. Format 35 mm, 1:1.85 Farbe Stabliste Kamera Arthur Wong Schnitt Maurice Li Ton Kinson Tsang Musik Henry Lai Recherche Henry Ng Heman Peng Cheung Wing Hung Produzenten Willie Chan Solon So Executive Producer Alex Law Associate Producer Doris Tse Produktion Jackie & Willie Productions Ltd. Lee Lee Chan, Jackie Chan 145 Waterloo Road HK-Kowloon TRACES OF THE DRAGON Weltvertrieb Wer Jackie Chan ist, weiß mittlerweile jedes Kind. Doch wer Jackie Chan in Fortissimo Film Sales Wirklichkeit ist, das wusste der Action-Held des Hongkong-Kinos und Veemarkt 77-79 erfolgreiche Hollywood-Star bis vor kurzem tatsächlich selber nicht. NL-1019 DA Amsterdam Bislang war über sein Herkunft Folgendes bekannt: 1954 in Hongkong Tel.:20-627 32 15 Fax:20-626 11 55 geboren,als Kind einfacher Leute in ärmlichen Verhältnissen aufgewachsen. [email protected] Der Vater Koch,die Mutter Hausangestellte,keine Geschwister.Zugleich kur- sierten Gerüchte: Er sei nicht der leibliche Sohn seiner Eltern, er habe sogar Brüder und Schwestern in der Volksrepublik China. 1999 lässt bei Jackie Chans Mutter die Gesundheit nach und der Vater beschließt, seinem Sohn die ganze Familiengeschichte zu erzählen. Jackie Chan besucht ihn in Australien, Mabel Cheungs Filmteam begleitet ihn. Überraschendes kommt ans Tageslicht: Jackie Chan hat tatsächlich Geschwister in der Volksrepublik,sein Nachname war ursprünglich gar nicht Chan. Sein Vater arbeitete während der Regierung Chiang Kai-sheks als Spion für dessen Nationalpartei und seine Mutter war alles andere als eine einfache Hausangestellte. Der Film folgt den Spuren dieser Familie, deren Schicksal nicht so einzigar- tig ist in China.Immer wieder wurden Familien auseinander gerissen:in den politischen Wirren vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg,während des Bürgerkriegs,in der Kulturrevolution. Die Regisseurin hat mit Verwandten Jackie Chans in Anhui gesprochen und in Hongkong mit ehemaligen Arbeitskollegen des Vaters. Unter Einbezug historischer Dokumentaraufnahmen erzählt sie nicht allein eine Familiengeschichte, sondern auch eine Geschichte des modernen China. TRACES OF THE DRAGON Nowadays, every kid knows who Jackie Chan is. But just who Jackie Chan really is, was something that this hero of Hong Kong action films and Holly- wood star didn’t even know himself until just recently. Until now, what was known about his roots was as follows: born in Hong Titel, Regie, Land, Buch, Kamera, Darsteller, Produktion, Weltvertrieb Kong in 1954 into a poor family. His father was a cook, his mother a house- maid. He has no siblings. At the same time, however, rumours were rife: he Filmografie was not the biological son of his parents and he even has brothers and sis- Internationale Titel 1985 THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ters in the People’s Republic of China. 1987 AN AUTUMN’S TALE In 1999, Jackie Chan’s mother’s health began to fail and his father decided 1988 PAINTED FACES to tell his son the whole family story. Jackie Chan went to visit him in Aus- Regie:Alex Law,Co-Autorin, tralia. Mabel Cheung and her film crew went with him. Produzentin The trip unearths some surprising facts: Jackie Chan does indeed have 1989 EIGHT TALES OF GOLD 1991 NOW YOU SEE LOVE,NOW YOU brothers and sisters in the People’s Republic and,his surname was not Chan DON’T at all originally. Jackie Chan’s father worked in Chiang Kai-shek’s regime as a Regie:Alex Law,Co-Autorin, spy for the Nationalist Party and his mother was anything but a simple Produzentin housemaid. 1993 THE MOON WARRIORS This film follows the traces of this family, whose fate is far from unique in Regie:Sammo Hung,Produzentin 1997 THE SOONG SISTERS China. Again and again, families were torn apart by the turmoil of the Sec- 1998 CITY OF GLASS ond World War, the Civil War, and, later, the Cultural Revolution. The film- 2001 BEIJING ROCKS maker spoke to Jackie Chan’s relatives in Anhui and to his father’s erstwhile 2002 TRACES OF THE DRAGON:JACKIE colleagues in Hong Kong. Interspersed by historical documentary footage, CHAN AND HIS LOST FAMILY this film does not merely tell the story of one family, rather, it tells the story Mabel Cheung of modern China. Biografie TRACES OF THE DRAGON Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting,geboren am Inutile de préciser qui est Jackie Chan, même les enfants le savent. Ce n’est 17.11.1950 in Hongkong.Studierte dort toutefois que très récemment que ce héros du cinéma d’action de Hong- und in Bristol englische Literatur.1978-80 Fernsehproduzentin und -regisseurin in kong, vedette à Hollywood, a lui-même appris qui il était réellement. Hongkong.1981-82 Besuch der New York Sur ses origines, on n’avait jusqu’à présent que les informations suivantes : University Graduate Film School.Hat seit né en 1954, à Hongkong, de parents simples vivant dans la pauvreté. Père, ihrem Regiedebüt,das zugleich Auftakt cuisinier, mère, employée de maison, pas de frère et sœur. En même temps, einer viel gerühmten Immigranten-Trilogie le bruit court qu’il ne serait pas le propre fils de ses parents et qu’il aurait war,regelmäßig mit dem Regisseur und Produzenten Alex Law zusammengearbei- même des frères et sœurs en République populaire de Chine. tet,so auch bei ihrem international erfolg- En 1999, la santé de la mère de Jackie Chan est défaillante et le père décide reichen Spielfilm THE SOONG SISTERS (IFB de raconter à son fils toute l’histoire de la famille. Jackie Chan lui rend visite Panorama 1997). en Australie, l’équipe cinématographique de Mabel Cheung l’accompagne. Des choses surprenantes sont alors révélées : Jackie Chan a effectivement Biography Cheung Yuen-ting (so Mabel Cheung’s orig- des frères et sœurs en Chine et son vrai nom de famille n’est pas Chan.Sous inal name) was born in Hong Kong on le régime de Chiang Kai-shek, son père travaillait comme espion pour le 17.11.1950.She studied English literature in compte du parti national de ce dirigeant et sa mère était loin d’être une Hong Kong and in Bristol.From 1978-80 simple employée de maison. she worked as a television producer and Le film retrouve les traces de cette famille dont le destin n’est pas un cas director in Hong Kong;she attended New York University Graduate Film School from unique en Chine. Déchirements et séparations furent de tout temps à 1981-82.Since her debut as a film director l’ordre du jour : lors des troubles politiques de la seconde guerre mondiale, (the first in a much-acclaimed trilogy about pendant la guerre civile et au cours de la révolution culturelle. La réalisatri- immigrants) she has worked regularly with ce a parlé avec des parents de Jackie Chan, à Anhui, et avec d’anciens col- director and producer Alex Law,as was the lègues du père, à Hongkong. En utilisant des prises de vue documentaires case on her internationally successful fea- ture film,THE SOONG SISTERS,which historiques,elle relate non seulement une histoire de famille mais aussi celle screened in the Panorama section of the de la Chine contemporaine. Berlinale in 1997. Biographie Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting,née le 17-11- 1950 à Hongkong.Etudie la littérature anglaise dans cette ville puis à Bristol.Pro- ductrice et réalisatrice de télévision à Hong- kong de 1978 à 1980.Fréquente l’école supérieure de cinéma de l’université de New York en 1981/82.Depuis ses débuts de réalisatrice,avec la première partie d’une célèbre trilogie sur des immigrants,elle tra- vaille régulièrement avec le metteur en scène et producteur Alex Law,entre autres pour la production de THE SOONG SISTERS (IFB Panorama 1997),qui remporte un grand succès international..
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