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The new Chinese-language play, The Shawshank Redemption, features an all-Western cast of Mandarin speakers, Chen Nan reports.

It has been 30 years since the premiere of the movie, The Shawshank Redemption.

The 1994 Hollywood film — written and directed by Frank Darabont and based on the Stephen King novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption — tells the story of Andy Dufresne, a banker who spends 19 years wrongly imprisoned in Shawshank State Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover. Over the following two decades, he befriends a fellow prisoner, Red, who has spent most of his life in the prison and is capable of smuggling in anything from the outside world.

Veteran Chinese actor-director Zhang Guoli says the film has always been one of his favorites.