The Black Cannon Incident
Genres
Overview
A mining engineer acting as a technical translator is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. Placed under investigation and reassigned to a less sensitive department, but never informed of the reason for his demotion, he petitions to get his job back, sparking an increasingly obtuse series of Party meetings.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
99 min
Release Date
1985-01-02
Status
Released
Original Language
Chinese
Vote Count
23
Vote Average
7.609
Liu Zifeng
Zhao Shuxin
Gao Ming
Li Renzhong
Yang Fengliang
Chen Hao-xiang
Yang Yazhou
Feng Liangcai
Wang Yi
Zhou Yuzhen
Ge Hui
Wu Kegong
Wang Beilong
Wang Hongye
Xie Wei
Liu Yumei
Zhao Xiuling
Zhao's Girlfriend
Gerhard Olschewski
Hans Schmidt
6.5
Fear and Trembling
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.
2003-03-12 | fr
0.0
Paul
There's a film subtitler. There's a film she must urgently subtitle. There's the plot of that film, with which she relates on a level that will remain enigmatic to us. And in that film within the film there's a main character, whose dreams are being devoured, and other characters, interested in dreams as well, but far more practical. And there¹s music, and a promise of music. Timelessly wandering through the world.
2016-04-27 | pt
7.7
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?
2021-02-26 | sr
5.2
The Woman in the Fifth
An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.
2011-09-11 | fr
6.2
Footprints on the Moon
Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?
1975-02-01 | it
7.4
Chuchotage
During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth hilariously vie for the attention of one listener.
2018-04-24 | hu
6.2
Fremont
Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
2023-08-25 | en
4.8
A Friend of the Deceased
Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.
1997-09-10 | uk
5.0
Shugaley 2
Russian sociologist Maxim Shugaley and his translator colleague Samer Sueifan are still being held in a Libyan prison. For more than a year, they have been subjected to torture and psychological violence on a daily basis. While in custody, Maxim Shugaley encounters various people who turn out to be, sometimes unknowingly, sources of information about the situation in Tripoli. Listening to their stories, the sociologist literally collects valuable information bit by bit, which can be decisive for the entire world community.
2020-09-06 | ru
6.2
São Jerônimo
Brazilian director Julio Bressane directs this religious biography on the life and work of Saint Jerome, the monk who first translated the Bible into Latin. Set both in the desert and in the posh confines of the Vatican, Jerome (Everaldo Pontes) agonizes over which Latin word would best fit its Hebrew counterpart. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
1999-09-10 | pt
10.0
Lies
This is the story about the life and artistic views of a designer through an interview that’s replete with poetic dialogue.
2016-06-28 | ja
0.0
Ky Nam Inn
In post-war Saigon, a young translator and an older widow find comfort with each other.
2025-09-07 | vi
0.0
Quo Vadis, Aida?: The Missing Part
Six months after the genocide in Srebrenica and after the Peace Treaty was signed, the women still don’t know the whereabouts of their sons. Out of desperation, they organize protests and private investigations. Despite being emotionally fragile, often under-informed and lacking education, these women embody an incredible strength that overcomes all political and bureaucratic barriers. They demand their sons, the truth, and justice, and nothing can stand in their way.
| bs
5.9
A Place Among the Living
A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
2003-08-28 | fr
0.0
A Brief Season
A young American agent living in Rome meets with a beautiful Swedish translator.
1969-11-26 | it
5.7
From Subway with Love
This romantic comedy presents a story of two women, twenty-year-old Laura, an editor at a woman’s weekly, and her widowed mother, a translator-interpreter named Jana. The two of them tirelessly seek Mr. Right. Having once lived through an intense relationship with a ‘typical’ Czech man, Jana intentionally avoids Czech men. She searches for her dream foreigner while long-sufferingly warding off the tragicomic advances of her good-natured neighbor Žemla. After several unsuccessful attempts, Laura falls in love with Oliver, a forty year old who works as an ad agency idea man. Little does she suspect that twenty years ago Oliver was Jana’s true love…
2005-04-14 | cs
5.0
The Honey Trap: A True Story of Love, Lies and the FBI
A dramatic tale of espionage, propaganda, and romance, following the infamous Berlin rapper Denis Cuspert aka Deso Dogg and his journey from artist to MMA fighter to ISIS recruiter. When the FBI assigns a translator to monitor Cuspert, her quest to get close to him takes over her life.
2024-12-06 | en
5.8
The Whistle Blower
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...
1986-11-21 | en
7.0
Entrenched
Four Australian soldiers become compromised when they capture a young Afghani boy spying on their reconnaissance position.
2018-07-01 | en
7.1
Chuck Norris vs Communism
In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.
2015-11-12 | ro