Title: The Whistleblower
Original Title: Chui shao ren
Year: 2019
Info
- Country: China Australia
- Length: 134 Minutes (2 hours 14 min)
- Budget: $50,000
- Genre: Action
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: December 06 2019
Plot
Mark (Jaiyin Lei, 'Peace Hotel', 'The Wandering Earth', 'Old Boy') is an expat from China currently residing in Australia, where he works for an energy company wants to sign a contract with a city in China that will allow them to install technology that converts coal into gases that can in turn be used as a source of energy. Mark is roped in to a meeting after the company's other Chinese management figure, Peter Hu (Ce Wang, 'The Perfect Couple', 'General and I', 'Go Go Squid!'), goes to Africa on a humanitarian aid project after an earthquake that happened near the company's facility over there. Mark is shocked to see that one of the Chinese organisation's members is his ex-girlfriend, Zhou Siliang (Wei Tang, 'Lust & Caution', 'Office', 'Nature Is Speaking'), who is now the wife of a powerful energy company CEO. Mark's confusion grows when Siliang appears to be the only one to survive a fatal plane crash that night. Mark soon realises that both companies are hiding some dark secrets and that Siliang could be the key to unlocking them before it's too late to prevent more destruction.
'The Windblower' is a Chinese-Australian action film written and directed by Xiaolu Xue, whose other works include 'Ocean Heaven', 'My People, My Country' and 'Finding Mr. Right 2'.
Cast
Director:
Zhou Siliang
Videos
December 13 2019
Photos
Trivia
Location
The filmmakers had originally planned to shoot scenes in Africa until location manager Pia Emery convinced them to film the African scenes in Victoria, Australia.
Foreign production
The largest foreign production to be filmed in Victoria, Australia since Steven Spielberg's The Pacific (2010), and the largest Australian-Chinese co-production in the state.
Extras
Around 350 people from Melbourne's African community were cast as extras.
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