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Last Train Home

2009 ‧ Documentary/Drama ‧ 1h 25m
7.6/10 · IMDb 87% · Rotten Tomatoes 86% · Metacritic
Annually, an estimated 130 million factories workers in China migrate from their city of employment back to the village they grew up in. This documentary spotlights married couple Chen and Zhang as they make their own journey. Chen and Zhang must...
Release date: September 3, 2010 (USA)
Director: Lixin Fan
Distributed by: EyeSteelFilm and Zeitgeist Films
Language: Sichuanese Standard Chinese
Literal meaning: homeward train

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Their unseen story plays out as China soars towards being a world superpower.A couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million ...
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Last Train Home takes viewers on a heart-stopping journey with the Zhangs, a couple who left infant children behind for factory jobs 16 years ago, hoping their ...
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Last Train Home (Chinese: 归途列车) is a 2009 Canadian documentary film directed by Lixin Fan and produced by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin of ...
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Emotionally engaging and starkly beautiful, Last Train Home's intimate observation of one fractured family sheds light on the human cost of China's ascendance ...
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Nov 28, 2023 · Last Train Home is a heartwarming and deeply engrossing story of hardship and survival combined with a fun and challenging resource management ...
Emotionally engaging and starkly beautiful, Last Train Home's intimate observation of one fractured family sheds light on the human cost of China's ascendance ...
A family embarks on an annual tormenting journey along with 130 million other peasant workers to reunite with their distant family, and to revive their love ...
It is an epic spectacle that tells us much about China, a country discarding traditional ways as it hurtles towards modernity and global economic dominance.
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Last Train Home is a haunting, vivid documentary exploring the human toll of China's economic boom in intimate, unforgettable detail. Read Critics Reviews.