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Cast

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei

Cao Fei

Cao Fei

Fang Lijun

Fang Lijun

Uli Sigg

Uli Sigg

Guangyi Wang

Guangyi Wang

Cao Chong’en

Cao Chong’en

Alexandra Munroe

Alexandra Munroe

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Filip Zumbrunn

Filip Zumbrunn

Camera Department Manager

Marcel Hoehn

Marcel Hoehn

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Michael Schindhelm

Michael Schindhelm

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Marina Wernli

Marina Wernli

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Dieter Meyer

Dieter Meyer

Sound Director

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The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg

20175.7 / 1093 min
Documentary

Overview

Swiss collector Uli Sigg has played in the time of economic opening of China by Mao an essential role, which is still continuing. To better understand China, in 1980 as an entrepreneur and business expert to the country called Sigg art turns to and wears for years the most important collection of contemporary Chinese art together. THE CHINESE LIVES OF ULI SIGG granted for the first time a comprehensive insight into the exciting and extraordinary life of the entrepreneur, diplomat and art collector. Contemporary artists like Ai Weiwei, Zeng Fanzhi, Cao Fei, Fang Lijun Wang Guangyi or consider him a friend and mentor to whom they could entrust their works, to protect them against the arbitrary destruction of the authorities. The majority of them are over the Sigg museum M + in Hong Kong, which expected to open in 2019 and the works will be presented to the general public.