Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)

05/16/2002 (CN) • 1h 56m

Drama

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.

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


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Status

Released

Original Language

Mandarin

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

china

love of one's life

balzac

1970s

violin

mountain village

cultural revolution

dressmaker

based on memoir or autobiography

sichuan

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