China: Beyond the Clouds 30 years old

Documentary series made in China in the early 90s. Agland was an anthropologist and he’d already made a wonderful series in the 80s about the Baka tribe in Cameroon. For Beyond the Clouds, he spent several years in a small town in Yunnan province telling the stories of various characters he met. He focuses on normal people but in doing so tells us about China’s past as well as its present and the monumental change that was coming.

Credits

China: Beyond the Clouds Cast

Name Character
Lisa Lu She was 66, now 97 years old as Narrator

China: Beyond the Clouds Crew

Name Department
Phil Agland as Director. Directing
China: Beyond the Clouds poster
China: Beyond the Clouds (30 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, January 01, 1994
  • Runtime: 240 minutes