Hong Kong’s Secret City (1988)

Genre : History, Documentary

Runtime : 45M

Director : Christa Wesemann

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Otto Clemens
Otto Clemens
Self – Narrator

Crews

Hugo Portisch
Hugo Portisch
Script
Hamdani Milas
Hamdani Milas
Camera Operator
Tim Hoh
Tim Hoh
Camera Operator
Chan Chu Yun
Chan Chu Yun
Sound Editor
Ellie Chau
Ellie Chau
Production Intern
Christa Wesemann
Christa Wesemann
Director

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