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Cast

Crew

Wang Min-cheol

Wang Min-cheol

Director of Photography

Rainer Nigrelli

Rainer Nigrelli

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Bin Cheng

Bin Cheng

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Hongjie Xu

Hongjie Xu

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Hongjie Xu

Hongjie Xu

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Hongjie Xu

Hongjie Xu

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Frank Schreiber

Frank Schreiber

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Hongjie Xu

Hongjie Xu

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Hongjie Xu

Hongjie Xu

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Jingbo Cheng

Jingbo Cheng

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Xi Wang

Xi Wang

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On the Rim of the Sky

20140.0 / 10102 min
Documentary

Overview

Gulu is a village of Yi people, located beyond the cliff's edge in Sichuan, China, there is no electricity. The villagers used the lianas and Heaven-Ladders to climb up and down the cliffs like a monkey. They had hardly contact with the outside world until a mule-horse-trail out of the rocks in 2004. The substitute teacher Shen is the only teacher in the Gulu Primary School and has worked over 20 years. Shen would really like to become a real teacher, but he has just a middle school education. One day, the young man Bao who called himself 'Don Quixote' came to Gulu because of the lianas and Heaven-Ladders. He felt, Gulu was just his utopia. Since then Shen's fate has changed dramatically.