The Crack
2002, Chinese. Directed by Li Wake.
CIFA (the Chinese Independent Film Archive) has recently helped restore The Crack, a low-budget independent film made on 35mm, which has been screened only four times to a small circle in China since its completion in 2000. This semi-autobiographical film, set during the Cultural Revolution, provides the missing link between the roots-seeking and scar literature and art of the 1980s and the performance art of the 1990s and 2000s. It grounds many of the embodied extremes of China’s famous performance art in the persistent psychosexual fetishes and neuroses produced by the extreme denial of individual desire under “mass line” socialism.
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- Chinese
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- Released
- 1 January 2002
- Original title
- 窥
- Country
- China
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The Crack isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 2002. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
What movies are like The Crack?
If you liked The Crack, try Black Dog, Hands of Stone, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.
Who directed The Crack?
The Crack (2002) was directed by Li Wake and stars Jiang Gengchen, Zhou Haodong.