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Surveillance reaches new levels of invasiveness in China, where advances in technology allow the state increasing control over public, private and political life.
A woman seeks the release of her husband, who was jailed on charges of subverting state power. A couple seek to expose human rights abuses, while a journalist writes about them. In all three cases, these activists are victims as a result of physical intimidation and the violation of their privacy. Combining hidden camera footage with interviews, Jialing Zhang’s film highlights how these cases represent a wider and worrying increase of state intervention in citizens’ lives through the development of increasingly complex technology. Its aim is to reduce peoples’ rights and freedoms – surveillance and propaganda are employed to eliminate individual thought, to misinform and, ultimately, to enslave. Total Trust is a disturbing portrait of one country today that plays out like a dystopian vision of a future world.
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Premiere statusUK premiere
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Director(s)Jialing Zhang
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Country(s)Germany, Netherlands
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Year2023
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Duration97 mins
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Producer(s)Saskia Kress / Filmtank, Thomas Tielsch, Michael Grotenhoff / Filmtank, Knut Jäger / Filmtank, Iris Lammertsma / Witfilm, Jialing Zhang
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EditingBarbara Toennieshen
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SoundJörg Gollasch
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Language(s)Chinese
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