

“After tradition… comes revolution.”
A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust.
Directed by Chen Kaige
User score
61 votes
Released
August 19, 1984
1h 31m
Mandarin