CHINA · 1984

Yellow Earth

Zhang Yimou
Chinese Fifth Generation cultural exchange rural poverty communist ideology family dynamics folk traditions
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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.

Year1984
CountryChina
DirectorZhang Yimou
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