The Marriage Certificate

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The wife of a prominent psychiatrist can't find her marriage certificate one day. This "jiehunzheng" is all important. Without it, the family officially has never existed, including the daughter. The couple go on a wild goose chase through the Chinese bureaucracy, meeting catch-22 all the way....they need a certificate to get a new one, etc. They even journey back to the People's Commune where they met, now the site of modern private enterprises where nobody even recalls the former occupants.

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Languages: Mandarin

Director: Huang Jianxin

Starring Cast: Feng Gong, Li Xiaomeng, Lü Liping, Xiangjin Luo, Wang Zhiwen, Jiang Shan

Cast

Feng Gong

顾明

Li Xiaomeng

顾小文

Lü Liping

谢雨婷

Xiangjin Luo

小安

Wang Zhiwen

老曹

Jiang Shan

民政干部

Feng Xiaogang

造假者

Fu Biao

老师

Wang Jinsong

弹弓手

Niu Zhen-Hua

老王

Gong Jinghua

齐大妈

Cui Qianmei

Zhou Tao

主持人

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