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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
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Dai Sijie directs Balzac et La Petite Tailleuse Chinoise (The Little Chinese Seamstress), a film adaptation of his own best-selling autobiographical novel. Set in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, the story follows Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two young men from the city who are sent to a mountain village for a re-education in Maoist principles. They work with the peasants under the supervision of the village head man (Wang Shuangbao), who considers their violin to be a symbol of the bourgeoisie. Luo and ...

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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 2005, Bac Films / Empire Pictures / Lise Fayolle

UPC: 843171005784

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