The young Chinese heir to millions in the USA is suddenly destitute. He takes out a life insurace policy on himself and assigns his former teacher to kill him.
Acting
Chen Peisi's physical comedy as the desperate, broke gentleman.
Production
Bizarre 1987 China-Germany co-production energy.
Writing
The premise keeps twisting—insurance fraud, fake death, real feelings.
Director
Wu Yigong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of few 1980s Chinese films to satirize both capitalist excess and socialist austerity simultaneously.
Rolf Hoppe, the German actor playing the insurance man, was a major East German star—state-approved casting across the Iron Curtain.
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