The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class divide and parental disapproval, romance blooms against turbulent times.
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Zhou Dongyu
Jing
Shawn Dou
Sun
Xi Meijuan
Jing's Mother
Li Xuejian
Mr.Zhang
Cheng Taishen
Mr.Luo
Sa Rina
Auntie
Lü Liping
Wei's Mother
Jiang Ruijia
Wei
Yu Xinbo
Lin
Yi Xinyun
Fang
Director
Zhang Yimou
Screenplay
Yin Lichuan
Status
Released
Original Language
ZH
Production
Beijing New Picture Film Co. Ltd.
badelf
August 11, 2022
A very sweet and sad tale based on one of the many stories from Cultural Revolution. It feels personal since the heroine claims that she wants to be a writer, and at the end of the film she goes abroad to study. Coincidentally, the author is a Chinese (American) living in Florida who seems to know exactly how it felt living under Mao Tse Tung. It was brilliantly translated to film by the accomplis...
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