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Manchurian Sleepwalkers

DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY:

Thomas Lahusen
Canada, 63 min

Chemodan Films, 2018


LOCATION:

Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

 

 

 

 


                 Trailer

With the passage of time, remembering becomes a form of sleepwalking. One-time émigrés of Manchuria and its legendary city, Harbin, take us on a journey of memory back to China. For many -- Russians, Poles, Germans and Japanese -- who left the country of the “last emperor” during the late 1940s and 50s, remembering borders on obsession. For Kumiko Muraoka, a Japanese-French poet, only forgetting alleviates the pain of having lost her childhood home.

 

Screenings:

The Archaeology Channel (TAC) International Film Festival (Eugene, Oregon, 2019).

Prizes: Honorable Mention, Music; Special mention, Cultural Change. 

Film presentation, International Council for Central and East European Studies, Montreal, 2021.

FIlm festival of the Twelfth International Convention of Asia Scholars, 2021. 

Kumiko
Harbin downtown
Returning to the Manchurian past
Harbin street in a puddle
St. Sophia
Harbin foxtrott

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