The travelling court / Michel Noll presents a Zhang Wenqing film ; written and direced by Zhang Wenqing ; .
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Title from screen. Originally produced in 2010. Narration, Zhao Lei ; translator, Phillip Wang. In English with some Chinese dailogues.
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The travelling court / Michel Noll presents a Zhang Wenqing film ; written and direced by Zhang Wenqing ; .
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Zhang, Wenqing, director, screenwriter.
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"In the Qing Ling mountains that separate the Northern and Southern parts of China, a good many villages are located at high altitude, some of them above 3 000 meters. This region has escaped almost all infrastructural reforms and many communities remain isolated. Yet, as in any village in the valleys, the same types of interpersonal problems arise and need to be dealt with. To try and solve the unavoidable conflicts inherent in humans living together in those circumstances, the administration has created a system of itinerant justice. The citizen no longer has to go to court, it is the court that comes to him: the judges come to meet the citizen. With this documentary film, we follow the daily life of a team of travelling judges. They move on motorbike, or if the engines can’t go further, they even walk to their destinations. Through two particular cases - a retired peasant who is seeking protection against a son-in-law chasing him out of his own house, and a handicapped doctor who requests, for very noble reasons, to be granted the right to divorce his young wife – we will go to the very heart of the functioning of this itinerant justice, this travelling court."--from back of container.