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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

A tailor-made love story.

6.820021h 56mReleased76 votes

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.

Director:
Dai Sijie
Country:
ChinaFrance
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Cast

  • Zhou Xun

    Little Seamstress

  • Chen Kun

    Luo Min

  • Liu Ye

    Ma Jianling

  • Wang Shuangbao

    Head of the Village

  • Cong Zhijun

    Old Tailor

  • Wang Hongwei

    Four Eyes

  • Xiao Xiong

    Mother of Four Eyes

  • Zuohui Tang

    Old Mill Worker

  • Chen Tianyu

    Director of the Commune

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    Qing-yun Fan

    Doctor

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    Jie Min

    Peasant

  • Zhang Chenghe

    Peasant

  • Xu Yukun

    Peasant

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    Lia Mei

    Female Villager

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    Jing Fang

    Female Villager

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    Li Peng

    Female Villager

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    Heng Fei Zhao

    Female Villager

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    Yao Liu

    Female Villager

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