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Shanghai in the 30s: money rules in this city open to all adventures and whose reputation attracts all the bold adventurers of the world. Albert Londres, one of the most famous journalists of the time, who is in Shanghai in 1924 reports to his newspaper. In 1932, the city is plunged into an armed conflict triggered by Japan, served as a curtain raiser for a new dispensation. Back in Shanghai to report on the ongoing upheavals, Albert Londres covers the conflict. His explosive investigation went up in smoke in the fire on the ocean liner bringing him back to France. Following the lashing rise of Du Yuesheng in Shanghai, the godfather of the Green Gang, we embark on an exploration of the period when bankers and drug traffickers, revolutionaries and nationalists made history. Unpublished Chinese archive materials, private archives, old feature films, period newspapers, police reports, diplomatic correspondence, journalism by Albert Londres and explorations of present-day Shanghai, sketch the portrait of a world that continues to fascinate the West.

France - 2008 - 1 h 30 mn - HD • 16/9 - Colour and B&W

Director Olivier Horn, Anne Riegel Camera Olivier Horn Sound Bruno Messain Editing Anne Riegel Cast Serge Aveditrian, Dominique Reymond

Production Françoise Gazio Idéale Audience, 6, rue de l'Agent-Bailly, 75009 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 5320 1413 Fax : +33 (0)1 5320 1401 E-mail : ideale@ideale-audience.fr Co-Production ARTE France

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