Sunday in Peking (1956)

Chris Marker’s travel essay Sunday in Peking transforms a long-held childhood dream into a cinematic journey through Beijing. Blending documentary observation with reflective narration, Marker captures the city’s rhythms, traditions, and everyday life in mid-1950s China with his signature curiosity and lyricism.

Released Nov. 1, 1956 19 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Short

Keywords: tmdb.communist-china, mdblist.imdb-short, mdblist.one-actor, imdb.peking-china, imdb.china, imdb.parade, imdb.child + 7 more, imdb.school, imdb.fog, imdb.color, imdb.memory, imdb.city, imdb.reference-to-genghis-khan, imdb.reference-to-kublai-khan