Mama

Mama (1990)

TMDb

6.8

01/05/1990 • 1h 29m
original-title

妈妈

status

Released

production-companies

Xi'an Film Studio

original-language

Mandarin

budget

-

revenue

-

Often cited as China’s first independent feature film, this low-budget drama, filmed largely in the director’s Beijing apartment, depicts the life of a single mother (a topic considered taboo at the time) caring for her mentally challenged son. Shot with a documentary aesthetic that includes interviews with families of mentally challenged persons, the film helped kick-start the Sixth Generation of filmmakers (including Wang Xiaoshuai and Jia Zhangke) and their ethos of employing documentary realism to depict the true conditions of contemporary China.

director
production-countries

China

spoken-languages

Mandarin

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