Synopsis
The Ji family lives in the depths of the province of Shaanxi, in the South of Internal Mongolia. While his wife cultivates, Naiyi Ji exercises a difficult profession, doctor. Very sought, he does not count any more the hours which he spends at the bedside of his patients. More than to look and to cure, he completely dedicates himself to relieve, to accompany farmers' suffering who have no means to go to the hospital in the distant city.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Solferino Images
- Foreign production company : Sichuan Radio & Television
- Film exports/foreign sales : Écrans des Mondes (ICTV)
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Michel Noll
- Screenwriter : Wenqing Zhang
- Director of Photography : Wenqing Zhang
- Editors : Cécile Beaulande, Stanislas Koch
- Sound Recordist : Olivier Lafuma
- Foreign Producer : Chaoyang Cheng
- Production managers : Éric Lambert, Benmin Guo
- Sound Editor : Olivier Lafuma
- Special Effects : Cun Yang, Changjiang Deng
- Sound Mixer : Olivier Lafuma
- Narrator : Dominique Malige
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : Chinese
- Coproducer countries : France, China
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, China)
- Production year : 2009
- Runtime : 51 min 22 seconds
- Visa number : 122.319
- Visa issue date : 20/01/2009
- Production formats : HDV
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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