Synopsis
The drama is set in a poor, superstitious village in the mountains on the Chinese border with Vietnam. When Tang, the eleventh child — the child too many, the one that shouldn’t be alive — is born, his father takes his gun and shoots his mother dead. Tang is brought up by his eldest brother, Tang the First, and suckled by a she-dog. No woman in the village wants to care for this child of ill omen.
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Actors (4)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Paris New-York Production
- Co-production : Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production company : Max Films
- French distribution : Rezo Films
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producers : Claude Kunetz, Marc Piton
- Screenwriters : Dai Sijie, Nadine Perront
- Director of Photography : Guy Dufaux
- Music Composer : Jean-Marie Sénia
- Editor : Marie Castro
- Sound Recordist : Claude La Haye
- Foreign Producer : Roger Frappier
- Sound Assistant : Louis Piché
- Production Manager : Marc Piton
- Press Attachés (film) : André-Paul Ricci, Tony Arnoux
- Production Designer : Christian Marti
- Sound Mixer : Hervé Buirette
- Still Photographer : Nguyen Huu Tuan
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Canada
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 25/11/1998
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 86.529
- Visa issue date : 18/09/1998
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
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Hong Kong French Film Festival
Hong Kong, 1999
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About
Somebody once pointed out to me that all Asians, rich or poor, scholarly or uneducated, are superstitious. He was right. This film shows how a dream can grow from totally innocent beginnings into an irrational local belief that people cling to so blindly that it finally becomes a violent and cruel nightmare, a new tragedy.
The story in the film is set in the 1950s, but you only have to open any Asian newspaper today to see how strong, persistent and all-pervasive superstitions still are everywhere, despite all the advances of an evermore modern society. It is this aspect of society that I wanted to bring out in this very realistic film, which is directly inspired by the beliefs rooted in my own native region.