

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
2002 · Movie · 1h 56m
Drama
"A tailor-made love story."
Overview
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
Ratings
IMDb
7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes
77%
Metacritic
65/100
Key crew
- Dai SijieDirector
- Dai SijieScreenplay
- Nadine PerrontScreenplay
- Pujian WangOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Zhou XunLittle Seamstress
- Chen KunLuo Min
- Liu YeMa Jianling
- Wang ShuangbaoHead of the Village
- Cong ZhijunOld Tailor
- Wang HongweiFour Eyes
- Xiao XiongMother of Four Eyes
- Zuohui TangOld Mill Worker
- Chen TianyuDirector of the Commune
- Qing-yun FanDoctor
- Jie MinPeasant
- Zhang ChenghePeasant
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Themes
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