The movie is adapted from Zhang Xianliang’s novel The Romantic Black Cannon, which tells the story of Engineer Zhao, who makes a big misunderstanding in search of a lost Black Cannon piece.
The movie looks very absurd and satirical, which may be unbelievable to young people nowadays. In fact, in those days, such things were not strange, and the social trend at that time was to despise intellectuals and guard them as potential enemies, and intellectuals could not be utilized for their talents in those days.
1986 / China / Drama Comedy / Huang Jianxin / Liu Zifeng Gerhard Olszewski
Zhao Shuxin (Liu Zifeng) is an engineer at a mining company, a loyal and hardworking man.
Playing chess is one of Zhao’s few hobbies, and he treasures his chess pieces, but when he returns from a business trip, he realizes that he has lost one of them, and in a hurry, he goes to the post office in the rain, and sends a telegram to the hotel with the message, “Black Cannon Lost 301 Looking for Zhao” to look for the pieces.
Unexpectedly, this telegram attracted the suspicion of the post office, reported to the Public Security Bureau for investigation, rising into the so-called “Black Cannon Incident”.
As a result of this incident, Zhao was transferred from his original post and prevented from participating in the ongoing German cooperation project.
The company replaced Zhao Shuxin, a German-speaking expert, with Feng Liangcai, a traveling interpreter, and the progress and quality of the project was significantly affected.
Soon after, the post office delivers a parcel addressed to Zhao Shuxin, which the senior leadership of the mining company secretly opens and discovers that it contains a chess piece. …… The movie The Black Cannon Incident won the Outstanding Feature Film Award of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, and the Best Male Actor Award of the 6th Golden Rooster Awards of the Chinese Cinema (Liu Zifeng).
