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Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise = Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / Lise Fayolle présente ; une production Productions Internationales "Le film" ; en co-production avec Le Studio Canal, France 3 Cinema, Les Films de la Suane ; et TF1 International ; avec la participation de Canal +, Bac FIlms, Le Centre national de la Cinématographie ; en collaboration avec China Films, Forbidden City Studios Inc. (Beijing) ; en association avec Philippe Rousselot ; scenario, Dai Sijie, Nadine Perront ; un film de Dai Sijie.
LIBRA DVD 010 881
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Dai, Sijie, 1954- Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise, author.
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Prohibited books.
- China.
- Prohibited books--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Comedy films.
- Romance films.
- Motion pictures, Chinese.
- Video recordings.
- Penn Provenance:
- Wishman, Seymour (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Widescreen format.
- Other Title:
- Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress
- Title in Chinese from IMDb: Xiao cai feng
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : First Run Features, [2005]
- Language Note:
- In Chinese, with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital.
- digital
- optical
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Two city-bred teenage best friends are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-ducation. Both fall in love with the same girl, daughter of the local tailor, and offer her glimpses of forbidden Western culture from a hidden stash of books. Set in the early 1970s, during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution.
- Participant:
- Zhou Xun, Liu Ye, Chen Kun, Wang Shuangbao, Cong Zhijun, Wang Hongwei.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Jean-Marie Dreujou ; editors, Julia Gregory, Luc Barnier ; music, Wang Pujian.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel: Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise / by Sijie Dai.
- Originally released with French subtitles, in 2002.
- Special features: Dai bio (3 p.); stills gallery (8 images); trailer (2 min.).
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Seymour Wishman and First Run Features.
- OCLC:
- 166408560
- Publisher Number:
- 843171005784
- FRF 5784D First Run Features
- Online:
- Seymour Wishman First Run Features Collection Home Page
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