Drama
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
"A tailor-made love story."
User Score72 votes
68%6.8/10
Release2002→
Runtime1H 56M
LanguageMandarin
StatusReleased
Synopsis
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.
Principal Cast8
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
Media5
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Director
Dai Sijie
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Keywords
chinalove of one's lifebalzac1970sviolinmountain villagecultural revolutiondressmakerbased on memoir or autobiographysichuan
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Countries:ChinaFrance
Production:Les Films de la SuaneLe FilmStudioCanalFrance 3 Cinéma