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Hong Kong’s Secret City

Hong Kong’s Secret City

★ 9.0/10•1988•45m•History•Documentary

Not many people know that there is in the center of Hong Kong, a city of 50,000 inhabitants that escape authority, a city which holds no law and no order, the ‘walled city’. Never before has a television crew been allowed to enter this labyrinth. Christa Wesemann, an Austrian documentary filmmaker, has achieved this for the first time. The recordings from the ‘walled city’ are breathtaking pictures, as it has never seen the world. The history and daily flow in Walled City are ruled by the ‘triad’, a Chinese crime syndicate.

Christa Wesemann · Director

Hugo Portisch · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime45m
LanguageDE
Release DateSep 21, 1988

Actors

Otto Clemens

Otto Clemens

Narrator (voice)

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