Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Synopsis
Set in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, the story follows Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two young men from the city who are sent to a mountain village for a re-education in Maoist principles. They work with the peasants under the supervision of the village head man (Wang Shuangbao), who considers their violin to be a symbol of the bourgeoisie. Luo and Ma both fall in love with the little Chinese seamstress (Ziiou Xun), the daughter of the tailor (Chung Zhijun), and they read her forbidden works of Western literature including French writers Balzac and Dumas. The conclusion finds the two men reminincing about their experiences 30 years later.
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Director (1)
Actors (10)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Productions Internationales Le Film
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, Les Films de la Suane, France 3 Cinéma, TF1 International
- Film exports/foreign sales : Newen Connect a TF1 Group Company
- French distribution : BAC Films
- News agency (France) : Moteur !
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Lise Fayolle
- Screenwriters : Dai Sijie, Nadine Perront
- Director of Photography : Jean-Marie Dreujou
- Music Composer : Pujian Wang
- Editors : Julia Grégory, Luc Barnier
- Sound recordists : Lala Wu, Daniel Sobrino
- Costume designer : Huamiao Tong
- Author of original work : Dai Sijie
- Sound Assistant : Nicolas Duchemin
- Press Attachés (film) : Laurent Renard, Dominique Segall
- Production Designer : Jiuping Cao
- Sound Mixer : Nicolas Naegelen
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : Mandarin
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2001
- French release : 09/10/2002
- Runtime : 1 h 56 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 101.310
- Visa issue date : 21/06/2002
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
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