Hong Kong’s Secret City

Hong Kong’s Secret City

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 21, 1988

Runtime

0h 45m

Genres

History, Documentary

User Score

90%

Original Title

Hongkongs geheime Stadt

Production Companies

Hawke Productions LTD, ORF

Director

Christa Wesemann

Description

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.