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Yellow Earth

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NR,1hr 29min

Genre:

Drama

Release:

1984

Director:

Chen Kaige

Starring:

Xue Bai, Wang Xueqi, Tan Tuo ...more

Synopsis: Young Red Army soldier Gu Qing is sent to the northern Shaanxi region of China to learn local folk songs in 1939. He stays with a poor grumpy widower, along with his son Hanhan and his precocious teenage daughter Cuiqiao. The three are initially suspicious of the stranger, but they warm to him after hearing of the new ideas of the Communist party. Soon he teaches the silent Hanhan a song with the line, "Only the Communists can save the poor," but it is with Cuiqiao -- who will soon be sold into marriage ... Full Synopsis

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	Jonathan Crow, AMG Review Yellow Earth's debut at the 1985 Hong Kong Film Festival forced international audiences to look seriously at Chinese cinema in a manner comparable to the earlier world cinema breakthroughs of Rashomon (1950) and Pather Panchali (1955). Like Breathless (1959) and Cruel Story of Youth (1960), Yellow Earth signaled the rise of a new generation of filmmakers, in this case China's "Fifth Generation." Its ... Full Review

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	Xue Bai Ciu Qiao Wang Xueqi Gu Qing Tan Tuo The Father Liu Qiang Hanhan

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