Synopsis
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
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes77%
Metacritic65/100
77 audience votes
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
chinalove of one's lifebalzac1970sviolinmountain villagecultural revolutiondressmakerbased on memoir or autobiographysichuan