Yellow Earth

China 1984, 89 minutes
Dir. Chen Kaige
In Mandarin with English subtitles
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama

Topics: Peasantry, Period 1930s.

Feat. Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan, Xueyin Wang, Bai Xue

Aroview: This spearheaded the wave of modern Chinese cinema to be seen outside the People's Republic. A communist soldier visits a backwards village in 1939 on a benign mission to collect folk songs, and subtly imposes an subversive influence on the future of his host family. Photographed by now-celebrated director Zhang Yimou.

NZ International Film Festival 1987