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Audiences rate it 28 points higher than critics do. Most of the 373 2010s war movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by one of the most tragic famines in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated by locusts, windstorms, earthquakes, epidemic disease and the corruption of the ruling Kuomintang government.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes36%
Metacritic41/100
Audiences rate it 28 points higher than critics do.
87 audience votes
Key crew
- Zhao JipingOriginal Music Composer
- Liu ZhenyunWriter
- Feng XiaogangDirector
Cast
- Zhang GuoliFan Dianyuan
- Xu FanHua Zhi
- Zhang MoShuan Zhu
- Zhang HanyuAn Ximan
- Chen DaomingJiang Jieshi
- Adrien BrodyTheodore Harold White
- Tim RobbinsBishop Megan
- Wang ZiwenXing Xing
- Fan WeiLao Ma
- Feng YuanzhengXia Lu
- Alec Su You-pengSong Ziwen
- Li XuejianLi Peiji
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Themes
chinadrought