Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
16/05/2002
Drama
1h 56m
- 68% (69 votes)
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A tailor-made love story.
Overview
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.
- Dai SijieDirector, Screenplay
- Nadine PerrontScreenplay
Original Title
巴尔扎克与小裁缝
Status
Released
Original Language
Chinese
Keywords
- china
- love of one's life
- balzac
- 1970s
- violin
- mountain village
- cultural revolution
- dressmaker
- based on memoir or autobiography
- sichuan
Top Billed Cast
Zhou Xun
Little Seamstress
Chen Kun
Luo Min
Liu Ye
Ma Jianling
Wang Shuangbao
Head of the Village
Cong Zhijun
Old Tailor
Wang Hongwei
Four Eyes
Xiao Xiong
Mother of Four Eyes
Zuohui Tang
Old Mill Worker
Chen Tianyu
Director of the Commune
Qing-yun Fan
Doctor
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