Yellow Earth (Huang tu di) (1984)

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Directed by

Kaige Chen

Starring

Xueqi Wang
Gu Quing - The Soldier

Written by

Kaige Chen

Lan Ke
novel

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Description: Gu Qing, a soldier from the propaganda department of the CCP Eight Route Army in CCP-controlled Shaanxi, travels alone from Yen'an to the northern KMT-controlled area of Shaanxi, Shaanbei, with the task of collecting the peasants' folk songs in order to re-write them with communist lyrics in order to boost the morale of the Eight Route Army soldiers. Yellow Earth begins with showing a communist soldier walking several miles. He reaches a small village where he is assigned to live with a poor family with the task of recording local folk songs for use in the army later. He learns the hardships of peasant life and especially of ... (more)

Release date: 19 August 1984

Tags: China (3), 80s (1), 1980s (1), 1984 (1)

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