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The Great Wall: Lovers at the Brink

The Great Wall: Lovers at the Brink

1989•1h 5m•Romance•Documentary

In the twilight years of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese filmmaker slowly becoming blind tours the country screening her last film to peasants. In it, the woman imagines two "alien" lovers walking from end-to-end along the Great Wall to join each other in the middle, one last time. This documentary is an adaptation of Ulay and Marina Abramovic's final collaborative project, the 1988 performance "The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk."

Murray Grigor · Director

Murray Grigor · Writer

Marina Abramović · Writer

Ulay · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 5m
LanguageEN
Release DateJan 1, 1989

Actors

Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović

Herself

Ulay

Ulay

Himself

Bao Xing

Calligrapher

Sedar Chazam

Voice

Wu Xiao Ming

Voice

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