AS TIME GOES BY IN SHANGHAI

By Uli GAULKE

PANTAFLIX - as BROAD

Documentary - Completed 2013

A movie about the vital power of music and a unique insight into Chinese history.

    • Year of production
    • 2013
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Historical, Musical
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Director(s)
    • Uli GAULKE
    • Writer(s)
    • Uli GAULKE , Jeannette EGGERT
    • Producer(s)
    • Helge ALBERS
    • Synopsis
    • Pianist Jingyu Zhang (73), contrabassist Mingkang Li (77), saxist Jibin Sun (80), alto saxist Honglin Gao (71), trumpeter Mengqiang Lu (53) and percussionist Zhengzhen Bao (93) are the oldest jazz band of the world – the „Peace Old Jazz Band”. Since thirty years they are playing at the legendary Peace Hotel in Shanghai – every night. A movie about the vital power of music and a unique insight into Chinese history.