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Overview
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Release Date:
December 1994 (USA)
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Plot:
Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry...
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 6 wins
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2 nominations
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Beautiful, painfully heartbreaking.
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Cast
(in credits order) | You Ge | ... | Xu Fugui |
 | Li Gong | ... | Xu Jiazhen |
| Ben Niu | ... | Town Chief |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Xiao Cong | ||
| Deng Fei | ... | Xu Youqing |
| Tao Guo | ... | Chunsheng |
| Zongluo Huang | ... | Fu Gui's dad |
| Wu Jiang | ... | Wan Erxi |
| Tianchi Liu | ... | Xu Fengxia, as an adult |
| Zhang Lu | ||
| Dahong Ni | ... | Long'er |
| Yan Su | ||
Directed by | |||
| Yimou Zhang | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Wei Lu | screenplay | |
| Hua Yu | novel | |
| Hua Yu | screenplay | |
Produced by | |||
| Fu-Sheng Chiu | .... | producer | |
| Funhong Kow | .... | producer | |
| Christophe Tseng | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Jiping Zhao | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Yue Lü | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Yuan Du | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Juiping Cao | |||
Production Management | |||
| Pingan Wang | .... | production manager | |
| Zhenyan Zhang | .... | production manager | |
Sound Department | |||
| Jing Tao | .... | sound | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Golem Distribución (Spain)
- Kinowelt Home Entertainment (2009) (Germany) (DVD)
- Madman Entertainment (2004) (Australia) (DVD)
- Prooptiki Video (1995) (Greece) (VHS)
- Samuel Goldwyn Company, The (USA) (subtitled)
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Also Known As:
"Huozhe" - China (original title)
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125 min
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South Korea:15 | Germany:12 | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade) | Australia:PG | Iceland:L | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:12
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Clint Eastwood's personal favorite of the competition entries at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival where Eastwood was Jury President.See more »
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Featured in The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1995) (TV)See more »
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I think most of us can watch Freddy Krueger rip people apart and barely flinch. Not that Nightmare on Elm Street is a bad film, it never inflicts pain on the viewer.
But this film is so beautiful and so real, that it's unbearably heartbreaking at times. Every time I watch it, and I know a particular heartbreaking scene is coming up, I almost want to turn it off, but I'm just frozen in place, forced to experience the pain of the people on screen, that I've traveled three decades with. Zhang's understanding of the people of China, and the tragedy of history is full of empathy, respect, and adoration. In every scene, Gong Li embodies strength and beauty. Zhang's study of communism and of the Chinese government, isn't a villifying one sided argument, but one with complete understanding of the tragedy of this huge social experiment, that effected not only China, but the whole world.
As a Korean American, I draw some appreciation at the parallel effects on Communism on Korea. Mao-Kim, Taiwan-SouthKorea. But this is a truly universal movie, and anyone would enjoy it.