To Get Rich Is Glorious (1998)

In this astonishingly candid documentary, a wealthy Hong Kong entrepreneur takes us on his emotional journey during the former colony's historic reunification with China. VINCENT LEE reveals the methodologies within his world of influence, and shares with us his strategies, dilemmas and fears. After the Handover we follow the new China Quest by Vincent and his New York partner MART BAKAL, a millionaire banker with global know-how (and a fine sense of comic timing). We watch this highly-entertaining double act as they are examined by China's political and corporate elites during their quest to take advantage of the new world order to buy the perfect run-down state enterprises. In Beijing and Shenyang we see Vincent's cultural skills playing against Mart's North American idiosyncrasies. And throughout their quest, Vincent- like Hamlet the Prince of Denmark - has the long shadow of his father looming over him.