Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Xiao Cai Feng)

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Directed by

Sijie Dai

Starring

Xun Zhou
Little Chinese Seamstress

Ye Liu
Ma

Kun Chen
Luo

Zhijun Cong
Old Tailor

Hongwei Wang
Four Eyes

Written by

Sijie Dai
novel

Nadine Perront

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Description: In 1971 China, in the lingering grip of cultural revolution, two university students, Luo and Ma, are sent to a mountain mining village as part of their re-education duty to purge them of their classical western orientated education. Amid the backbreaking work and stifling ignorance of the community, the two boys find that music, and the presence of the beautiful local young women are the only pleasant things in their miserable life. However, none compare to the young seamstress granddaughter of the local tailor. Stealing a departing student's secret cache of forbidden books of classic western literature such as the works of Hon ... (more)

Release date: 9 October 2002
UPC: 843171005784