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Youth (Hard Times) (2025)

3h 47m

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Youth (Hard Times) (2025)

Name: Youth (Hard Times)
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-04-02

3h 47m

Running Time

April 2, 2025
Release Date

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Plot.

In this enveloping second part of the Youth trilogy, shot between 2015 and 2019, Wang Bing deepens his vérité portrait of a generation struggling to survive on meager wages amidst a nation’s economic expansion, emphasizing the distrustful, increasingly combative relationship between workers and management.

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Currently Youth (Hard Times) is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: mk2

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🇫🇷 France

Cast & Crew.

Wang Bing

Director

Sonia Buchman

Producer

Wang Bing

Director

Mao Hui

Producer

Nicolas de la Mothe

Producer

Vincent Wang

Producer

Xu Bingyuan

Editor

Shan Xiaohui

Director of Photography

Gilles Chanial

Co-Producer

Dominique Auvray

Editor

Media.

Details.

Release Date
April 2, 2025

Original Name
青春（苦）

Status
Released

Running Time
3h 47m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-04-16

Wiki.

Youth (Hard Times) (Chinese: 青春：苦; pinyin: qīng chūn ku) is a 2024 documentary film directed by Wang Bing. It is the second entry in the director's Youth trilogy, about young Chinese textile industry workers, after the 2023 documentary Youth (Spring).

The film had its world premiere at the International Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Leopard, and was awarded a Special Mention and the FIPRESCI Prize. It was followed by Youth (Homecoming), also released in 2024.