China’s Golden Rooster Awards will be held on the 25th, but the opening film “One Second,” directed by Chinese director Zhang Yimou, is rumored to have been canceled due to “technical problems” at the festival. Earlier, foreign media pointed out that the film, which is about the Cultural Revolution, had stepped on Beijing’s red line. Previously, One Second was also withdrawn from the Berlinale due to technical problems. So far, neither the producers of One Second nor the Golden Rooster Award officials have provided any further information on the matter. Many Chinese netizens are worried that in such an atmosphere, the planned theatrical release on the 27th may also be affected.
According to a report by the Central News Agency today, the opening film “One Second” was suddenly withdrawn for technical reasons on the eve of the Golden Rooster Awards. The opening film “One Second”, directed by Chinese director Zhang Yimou, is rumored to have been canceled due to technical problems. According to the land-based media Interface News and Sina.com, the Golden Rooster Awards officially announced on November 7 that “One Second” has been selected as the opening film of this year’s Golden Rooster Awards, and that the opening screening will be the world premiere of the film.
The report says “One Second” is a 2019 film by Zhang Yimou, starring Zhang Yimou, Liu Haocun and Fan Wei, about three people from different backgrounds who bond over a political propaganda film during the Cultural Revolution. The film is about three people from different backgrounds who bond over a political propaganda film during the Cultural Revolution, but “One Second” is nowhere to be seen in the official list of films released today.
Zhang Yimou’s wife, Chen Ting, posted on her personal microblog this afternoon that One Second will not be shown at the opening of the Golden Rooster Awards due to “technical reasons” and reminded the audience to “watch and cherish it after it is shown in theaters”. The film was replaced by “Wandering Earth: The Leap 2020 Special Edition”, which says “a second is too short and the wait is long”. And said “a second is too short, the wait is very long”. This statement has a meaning, causing suspicion.
According to the Central News Agency, this is not the first time that One Second has been absent from a film festival for “technical reasons”. In February this year, One Second was scheduled to have its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, where it was in contention for the Golden Bear, the highest honor. However, a week before the festival, it was announced that One Second had withdrawn from the Berlin Film Festival due to “technical reasons”. At the time, many foreign media and film industry insiders speculated that the technical problems were just an excuse, and that the film was not released because it touched on the Cultural Revolution issue and stepped on Beijing’s bottom line.
According to the report, the Golden Rooster Award has been withdrawn for two consecutive years. Last year, Lou Ye’s “Lansin Grand Theater” was selected as the opening film of the festival, but it was withdrawn on the eve of the opening and was replaced by the documentary “Shakuhachi.
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