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Original Language:Azerbaijani
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Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
35 minDocumentary
Welcome to Shanghai No not the Chinese megalopolis full of neon and nouveaux riches but precisely the opposite an eponymous slum in Baku the capital of Azerbaijan In the distance skyscrapers built with oil money tower above the city but here dilapidated houses are packed along a single railway line The slum is scheduled for demolition and now and again a child is killed by one of the freight trains slowly chugging by When the German director Veit Helmer arrives in Shanghai to make a feature film feelings quickly run high The locals are afraid that he wants to make them look ridiculous The young Azerbaijani filmmaker Leyli Gafarova succeeds however in gaining the inhabitants trust and films a choppy playful portrait of Shanghai in the margins of the feature film production In the guise of a makingof she shows intimate fragments of life in the slum while its still standing
DirectorLeyli Gafarova
