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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

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6.8/10 • 69

2002-05-161h 56m

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A tailor-made love story.

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.

Directors
Dai Sijie
Editors
Julia Grégory

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  1. Zhou Xun

    Zhou Xun

    Little Seamstress

  2. Chen Kun

    Chen Kun

    Luo Min

  3. Liu Ye

    Liu Ye

    Ma Jianling

  4. Wang Shuangbao

    Wang Shuangbao

    Head of the Village

  5. Cong Zhijun

    Cong Zhijun

    Old Tailor

  6. Wang Hongwei

    Wang Hongwei

    Four Eyes

  7. Xiao Xiong

    Xiao Xiong

    Mother of Four Eyes

  8. Zuohui Tang

    Zuohui Tang

    Old Mill Worker

  9. Chen Tianyu

    Chen Tianyu

    Director of the Commune

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Status
Released
Original Language
Chinese
Budget
--
Revenue
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Keywords
chinalove of one's lifebalzac1970sviolinmountain villagecultural revolutiondressmakerbased on memoir or autobiographysichuan