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Yellow Earth

Original title: Huang tu di
  • 19841984
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 1h 26m
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7.1/10
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Yellow Earth (1984)
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'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns ... Read all'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about har... Read all'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the army, but promises to come back for the young girl,... Read all
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    • Kaige Chen
    • Kaige Chen
    • Lan Ke(novel)
    • Ziliang Zhang(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Xueqi Wang
    • Bai Xue
    • Quiang Liu
    • Kaige Chen
    • Kaige Chen
    • Lan Ke(novel)
    • Ziliang Zhang(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Xueqi Wang
    • Bai Xue
    • Quiang Liu
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    • 19User reviews
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    Xueqi Wang
    Xueqi Wang
    • Gu Quing - The Soldier
    • (as Xueyin Wang)
    Bai Xue
    • Cuiqiao - The Girl
    Quiang Liu
    • Hanhan - The Boy
    Tuo Tan
    • The Father
      • Kaige Chen
      • Kaige Chen
      • Lan Ke(novel)
      • Ziliang Zhang(screenplay)
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      The movie is not often viewed in China because most citizens do not understand the film.
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      Featured in The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Fight the Power: Protest in Film (2011)

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    7/10
    visually rich, but it requires a little patience
    In this handsome but dramatically subdued portrait of life in the harsh, mountainous hinterland of mainland China a plucky young bureaucrat, collecting folk songs for the communist army, befriends a penniless widower and his children, before learning to his horror that the winsome teenage daughter is to be sold against her will into marriage with an elderly local farmer. Director Kaige Chen shows a photographer's eye for visual composition and symmetry, but the narrative structure of his film is almost non-existent. This is storytelling completely uninfluenced by Western techniques and standards, unfolding for the most part through imagery and song. Whether the result is a refreshing change of pace or an exercise in tedium will depend entire on the viewer's attitude toward classic Third World cinema.
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    • Jan 17, 2011

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      • August 19, 1984 (China)
      • China
      • Mandarin
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      • Guangxi Film Studio
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    • 1 hour 26 minutes
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