Product Information
Filmmaker Lixin Fan follows Changhua and Suqin --a couple from a rural village in China's Sichuan province-- over the course of several years in the documentary LAST TRAIN HOME. Frustrated with their lack of employment opportunities, they left their children with their grandparents and traveled to the industrial city of Guangdong; taking jobs with a large textile firm.Product Identifiers
EAN5050968009237
eBay Product ID (ePID)102199046
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleLast Train Home
DirectorLixin Fan
Release Year2010
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish\Chinese
GenreDocumentaries, General, Documentaries & Biographies
Additional Product Features
CertificateE
Country/Region of ManufactureCanada
Number of Discs1
Additional InformationChanghua Zhang and Suqin Chen are a couple from a rural village in China's Sichuan province. Frustrated with their lack of employment opportunities, they traveled to the industrial city of Guangdong and took jobs with a large textile firm, making clothing for export. However, Changhua and Suqin were not able to bring their two children with them, and since then the kids have been raised by their grandparents, with their mother and father staying in touch though occasional telephone calls. The only time they have a chance to see their now-teenage children is during China's annual New Year's celebration; they are among the 130 million Chinese whose work keeps them away from their families and make the trip home during the holiday, resulting in an overcrowded rail system as the trains struggle to keep up with the rush. Filmmaker Lixin Fan follows Changhua and Suqin over the course of several years in the documentary LAST TRAIN HOME, as the couple makes the long journey home (over a thousand miles) only to find that their family is slowly falling apart.
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleLast Train Home