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Bookmark this pageSacrificed Youth (1985)
Director: Zhang Nuanxin
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From Time Out Film Guide
A lyrical, elegiac tale about the generation of students banished to remote agricultural regions of China during the Cultural Revolution. 17-year-old Li Chun, a shy, even repressed Han girl from Beijing, is sent to work in a small village in the Dai countryside, down near Laos. At first disdainful of the natives' rural superstitions and poverty, only slowly does she overcome her outsider status and learn the value of the Dais' appreciation of beauty, nature and human warmth. An unsentimental celebration of tradition, exotic landscape and cultural independence, Zhang's film is both a loving portrait of Dai life and a sensitive, partly autobiographical study of one girl's hesitant awakening to sensuality. Infused with a discreet, gentle eroticism and a final, touching sense of loss, it charms through its narrative simplicity and visual elegance.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Zhang Nuanxin
Producer: Zhao Yamin
Cast: Li Fengxu, Feng Yuanzheng, Song Tao, Guo Jianguo, Yu Da full cast
Duration: 96 mins
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