The Black Cannon Incident

A mining engineer acting as a technical translator is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. Placed under investigation and reassigned to a less sensitive department, but never informed of the reason for his demotion, he petitions to get his job back, sparking an increasingly obtuse series of Party meetings.

• Huang JianxinDirector
• Zhang XianliangWriter

• Liu ZifengZhao Shuxin
• Gao MingLi Renzhong
• Yang FengliangChen Hao-xiang
• Yang YazhouFeng Liangcai
• Wang YiZhou Yuzhen
• Ge HuiWu Kegong
• Wang BeilongWang Hongye
• Xie WeiLiu Yumei
• Zhao XiulingZhao's Girlfriend
• Gerhard OlschewskiHans Schmidt