Black Coal, Thin Ice
Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.
Diao Yinan (刁亦男; born 1969 in Xi’an, Shaanxi) is a Chinese director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival for Black Coal, Thin Ice.
Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.
Diao Yinan’s critically acclaimed film, well-shot in DV and set against the fascinating backdrop of modern China, stars Liang Hongli as a struggling, recently unemployed young factory worker who must return to his family’s laundrette, where he ‘borrows’ a police officer’s shirt and begins successfully impersonating an officer of the law.
Wu Hongyan, woman executioner in her thirties, works at the court in the province of Shaanxi in China, where she carries out executions on women. Wu Hongyan travels every weekend to a town to join parties organized by a marriage bureau. The result of her dating is mediocre, until she meets the mysterious Li Jun. She could not have suspected that Li Jun’s wife was the last woman she has executed