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Actors (3)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Les Films de l'Étranger
- Foreign production companies : Wil Productions, Entre Chien et Loup
- Associate producer : Aeternam Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Goodfellas
- French distribution : Capricci
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Francisco Villa-Lobos
- Screenwriter : Wang Bing
- Editor : Marie-Hélène Dozo
- Sound recordists : Pierre Gamet, Hélène Le Morvan, Emmanuel Croset
- Costume designer : Wang Fuzheng
- Author of original work : Yang Xianhui
- Associate producer : Francesca Feder
- Line Producers : Wang Bing, Francisco Villa-Lobos, Philippe Avril
- Sound editors : Gilles Laurent, Valérie Ledocte, Fu Kang
- Production Designer : Zhang Fuli
- Sound Mixer : Michel Schillings
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Mandarin
- Coproducer countries : France, Belgium, China, Hong Kong
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2010
- French release : 14/03/2012
- Runtime : 1 h 49 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 116.297
- Visa issue date : 24/02/2012
- Approval :
- Production formats : HDV
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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About
At the end of the 1950s, the Chinese government sends thousands of men, considered right-wing in view of their past or their criticism with regard to the Communist party, to forced labor camps. Deported to be re-educated in the northwest part of the country, in the middle of the Gobi Desert and thousands of miles from their families, they are confronted by utter destitution. Faced with the physical labor, lack of food and harsh climate, a great many of them die. The Ditch tells of their fate - the extreme of the human condition.