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Yellow Earth

“After tradition… comes revolution.”

Director
Chen Kaige
Year
1984
Runtime
1h 31m
Release
1984
Language
zh
Country
CN

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01 · Overview

What it’s about

The story

A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust.

  • #peasant
  • #1930s
  • #folk music
  • #military
  • #folk singer
  • #communist party
  • #drought
  • #chinese communism
  • #tradition
  • #arranged marriage

  • Directed by

    Chen Kaige

  • Written by

    Ziliang Zhang & Chen Kaige

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