# No Man's Land (2013)

> A city lawyer's desert journey becomes a bleakly comic collision with criminality, violence, and frontier lawlessness in China's Gobi.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/136686

## Facts

- Runtime: 118 min
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Director: Ning Hao
- Cast: Xu Zheng, Yu Nan, Huang Bo, Duobujie, Wang Shuangbao, Ba Duo, Tao Hong, Huang Jingyi
- TMDB rating: 7.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1456660/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: graphic
- Mood: bleak, sardonic, tense, late night thriller viewing, arthouse movie night

## Synopsis

A young lawyer's journey through the Gobi desert leads to unexpected challenges and moral dilemmas.

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