消失的檔案 = Vanished archives /
Xiao shi de dang an = Vanished archives

Summary/Review: Vanished archives is a documentary on Hong Kong's 1967 riots, which were considered a watershed in the history of the city. Yet many of the historical records of these events mysteriously disappeared. To reconstruct this episode, director Connie Lo Yan-wai and her tem exerted meticulous effort to retrieve data from eyewitnesses and left wing organizatons that staged the riots. Apart from oral history research, she also dug into tons of declassified archives of the British government. Above all, she managed to unearth a notebook of Mr. Ng Tik Chow, who was then assisting Chinese premier Chou Enlai in managing the riots. In his notebook he recorded in great detail the exchanges between Beijing and the local communists and thus provides a glimpse of the politics of this traumatic period. "Respect the facts and learn from the lessons." This is the vision of the director.--Container.