Find an old movie that was made in Lijiang a long time ago.

English name: China:Beyond the cloud

Main achievements: (Phil Agland)

Main performance: (Lisa Lu, Lisa Lu)

The last movie: 1994

Beyond the Cloud reproduces a unique society and culture with wonderful shots and keen vision.

With the permission of the China Municipal Government, the award-winning director Phil Agland spent five years filming and went deep into Lijiang, a beautiful town in southwest China, and lived there. By telling the story of four families living in such a multicultural town, it shows us a microcosm of China society.

With rich lens themes and realistic expressions, the film vividly reproduces the lives of ordinary people in remote mountain villages in China and their joys and sorrows, which is our human experience and emotion.

Beyond the Cloud is a series of documentaries produced by British Channel 4, which was filmed in Lijiang, Yunnan in the early 1990s. This documentary has been a great success in the world, and its ratings in Britain have surpassed those of TV series broadcast at the same time. When it was broadcast in Britain, there were suddenly fewer people on the streets of London at nine o'clock in the evening for seven consecutive days.

British Channel 4 is the anchor channel of European documentaries. Egeland, an internationally renowned documentary director and British independent filmmaker, has been making documentaries for Channel 4. His series of documentaries "Baka: People in the Tropical Rainforest" filmed in South America, "South of the Cloud" filmed in Lijiang, Yunnan, and a series of documentaries filmed in Shanghai have been constantly conquering the world audience. "Beyond the Cloud" (***7 episodes, 60 minutes each) filmed in Lijiang recorded the ordinary stories of ordinary people in Lijiang by means of story chips. Anyone who has seen this documentary will be fascinated by it and moved by Lijiang. Many westerners don't believe that there will be such a beautiful place in the world, let alone that the story in the movie is true.

1994, when I attended a film festival in Germany, I found the English version of South of the Cloud through a German friend, which lasted for seven hours. After reading it carefully, I came to Lijiang with reverence and found Dr. Tang in the film. Later, Egeland forged a deep friendship with Dr. Tang. A few days after the Lijiang earthquake, Egeland made a special trip to Lijiang to visit his research object. Later, I found several other main characters through Tang, and I was sure that more than 97% of their stories were true. Interestingly, at a documentary release conference in Beijing, I met an old French lady who knew Chinese. She actually "exposed" the falsehood of the filming method in many formal occasions, and even said that the story was directed by the director, because she said that she really didn't believe that there would be such a beautiful place and such a touching story in China. I asked the old lady, have you ever been to Lijiang? She said "no". This is not funny at all! I told her, "We really have many such stories in Yunnan. I suggest her to go."

Indeed, this film has achieved great success not only in art but also in business. He has successively won the Gleason Award of the British Film Academy 1994, the Best Documentary Award of the British Broadcasting Journalists Association, the Best Adult Education Award of the Royal Television Society of the Year, the Peabody Award of the United States, the Best Documentary Award and the Best Comprehensive Works Award of the British Independent Filmmaker Award 1995, and the Best Photography Award of the British Film and Television Arts Award 1995. Later, he won the Emmy Award for American TV. Wait a minute.

More than 80 countries and regions around the world, including China and Taiwan Province Province, purchased its broadcasting rights. Someone in Taiwan Province Province made statistics for him, and Egeland earned a minimum profit of 200 times his return on investment. In addition, a documentary has become a completely free voluntary publicity, which has immeasurable influence and benefits on Lijiang, Yunnan and China. Thousands of people from all over the world, including the King and Queen of Norway, came to Lijiang to find the story of "South of the Cloud" and learn about Lijiang and China.

Later, Egeland filmed a documentary in Shanghai, and the clever Shanghainese provided Egeland with first-class shooting conditions. Egeland's schedule is quite full now, because there are many places around the world looking for him to make documentaries.

With the active support of Lijiang Foreign Affairs Office, Kunming Real Scene Film and Television Creation Co., Ltd. and Lijiang Film and Television Culture Center purchased the right to publish and broadcast the film in Chinese mainland from British Channel 4. At present, the Chinese version of the film is being produced. The original film was 7 hours long and was carefully edited into a 4-hour Chinese version. It is expected to meet the domestic audience in June 2007.