

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Visit website6.8/10 • 69
2002-05-16 • 1h 56m
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

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Visit website2002-05-16 • 1h 56m
6.8/10 • 69
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
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsZhou 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
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- Original Language
- Chinese
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- Keywords
- chinalove of one's lifebalzac1970sviolinmountain villagecultural revolutiondressmakerbased on memoir or autobiographysichuan