Wen Muye
Award-winning Filmmaker Details
Best Directorial Debut
Director of "I Am Not the God of Medicine
Award Comments:
The judges thought that director Wen Muye explored profound social topics in the film "I Am Not the God of Medicine" with a realist expression, through a calm and realistic documentary narrative, and a life-like natural performance. With the outer core of humor and warm humanistic concern, it focuses on the details and strikes the heart, making the audience laugh with tears and cry with love.
I'm Not the God of Medicine. Film Introduction:
Cheng Yong (Xu Feng), an ordinary middle-aged man who runs a health food store, has lost his mind and marriage. The arrival of an uninvited guest, Lv Beneficiary (Wang Chuanjun), allows him to open up a new career to buy drugs in India as a "buyer", although difficult, but he found a business opportunity on this "road to buy drugs", and once out of hand, he did the exclusive agent of Indian generic drugs for the treatment of slow-acting leukemia. Indian generic drugs for slow pull leukemia as an exclusive agent. While making money, he also gets to know several patients and their families, including Si Hui (Tan Zhuo), who is forced to become a dancer to save her daughter, Reverend Liu (Yang Xinming), who speaks fluent "priestly" English, and "Yellow Hair" (Zhang Yu), who is a violent card player, and they team up to start a business that doubles their profits. The business has multiplied in profits but also in crises. Cheng Yong's former brother-in-law, Inspector Cao (Zhou Yiwei), is ordered to investigate the source of the generic drugs, and Zhang Changlin (Wang Yanhui), a fake drug dealer, and Ruitu's licensed medical representative (Li Naiwen) are also eyeing it, and the business is gradually turning into a tug-of-war for salvation. This movie is adapted from the real-life story of Lu Yong, a slow-grain leukemia patient who purchased anti-cancer drugs on behalf of his family.