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Yellow Earth (simplified Chinese: 黄土地; traditional Chinese: 黃土地; pinyin: Huáng tǔdì) is a 1984 Chinese drama film. This film is telling a story of a young, village girl who bravely resists old-dated customs and searches for freedom.
Yellow Earth: Directed by Kaige Chen. With Xueqi Wang, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan. A communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor peasant family, giving hope to the teenage daughter in escaping an arranged marriage.
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- Drama, History, Music
- Kaige Chen
- 1988
Oct 1, 2022 · A story of a young, village girl who bravely resists old-dated customs and searches for freedom.Gu Qing, a soldier from the propaganda department of the CCP ...
- 86 min
- 13.6K
- AsianCineplex
May 8, 2020 · Chen Kaige's 1984 debut film, Yellow Earth, defied the social realism of its day, revolutionizing the ways the Chinese watched and created films. As a young man, the Chinese writer Kē Lán 柯蓝 (1920-2006) once took a trip from Yan’an to Shaanbei, the northern portion of Shaanxi Province.
In the spring of 1939, an idealistic communist soldier (Wang Xueqi) takes to the Chinese countryside on a mission to collect spirited folk songs from the people. However, he soon discovers that ...
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- Xue Bai, Wang Xue-Qi, Tan Tuo, Quiang Liu
- Chen Kaige
- Drama
'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering.
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Set in the vast landscape of the austere and grand loess of northwestern China, Yellow Earth ’s story of an army “art worker” in search of rural folksongs provides the framework for the quasi-ethnographic observations and cultural-historical reflections that are the true heart of the film.
