Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
2002
★★★☆☆ 6.8/10
⏱️ 116 min
📅 Released
🌐 ZH
Drama
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

Cast

Zhou Xun
Zhou Xun
Little Seamstress
Chen Kun
Chen Kun
Luo Min
Liu Ye
Liu Ye
Ma Jianling
Wang Shuangbao
Wang Shuangbao
Head of the Village
Cong Zhijun
Cong Zhijun
Old Tailor
Wang Hongwei
Wang Hongwei
Four Eyes

Crew

Director
Dai Sijie
Writer
Dai Sijie, Nadine Perront
Producer
Bernard Lorain, Pujian Wang, Wang Zhebin

Production

Les Films de la Suane, Le Film

Keywords

chinalove of one's lifebalzac1970sviolinmountain villagecultural revolutiondressmakerbased on memoir or autobiographysichuan