ARTE Reportage
China: The Rat Tribe25 min
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In Beijing, wages are low and but rents have skyrocketed. Many Beijingers have few options left. And thus a strange underworld was born: long corridoors leading to tiny underground rooms, in basements originally designed as bomb shelters. They house a city within a city. And within this city, a tribe of people are forced to live like rats.
Director
Brando Baranzelli
Author
Brando Baranzelli
Country
France
Year
2017
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