Hong Kong’s Secret City (1988)

09/21/1988 (AT) • 45m

History, Documentary

Overview

Not many people know that there is in the center of Hong Kong, a city of 50,000 inhabitants that escape authority, a city which holds no law and no order, the ‘walled city’. Never before has a television crew been allowed to enter this labyrinth. Christa Wesemann, an Austrian documentary filmmaker, has achieved this for the first time. The recordings from the ‘walled city’ are breathtaking pictures, as it has never seen the world. The history and daily flow in Walled City are ruled by the ‘triad’, a Chinese crime syndicate.

Top Billed Cast

Otto Clemens

Narrator (voice)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

slum

architecture

walled city

kowloon

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