The actual title of this this movie is: Yi Ge Si Zhe Dui Sheng Zhe De Fang Wen, instead of Yi Ge Shi Zhe Dui Sheng Zhe De Fang Wen, and its exact literal translation is: An interview of the Living Person conducted by a Dead Person.
Besides the fact that this movie was one of the earliest Chinese movies that showed in Germany (west Germany, that is) and abroad, the only reason this movie got the German praise was the fact that the relationships between the east and the west was at new low, and since China was with the west in the struggle against the former-Soviet Union, this movie took this advantage and got the praise that it really did not deserve.
