THE MAN WHO COULDN'T LEAVE
Genre
Historical and Documentary
Running time
45 minutes
Year
2022
Language
Mandarin
Subtitle
English
Country
Taiwan R.O.C.
Director
Singing Chen
Bio
Producer
Shih-Ken Lin
Cast
Ju Lin, Sou Gaku, Peijia Huang, Monmon Peng, Chia-Kuei Chen, Li-Li Pan
Scriptwriter
Singing Chen, Yi-An Lou, Hsin-I Lin
Within the walls of the former Green Island prison, political detainee A-Kuen, tells the stories of imprisonment and persecution happened in the 1950s in Taiwan. Among fellow inmates, frozen in time, he recounts his own experiences and those of his friend, A-Ching, who never made it out. Experience the time and place, and the waiting, in hope, for a chance to keep the stories alive. The Man Who Couldn’t Leave integrates the stories of numerous political victims of the White Terror and told through the form of an undelivered family letter. An immersive VR experience of hope, fear and camaraderie.
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