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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
Directed by Dai Sijie
“A tailor-made love story.”
Drama, Romance · 1h 56m
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.
Cast
Zhou Xun
Little Seamstress
Chen Kun
Luo Min
Liu Ye
Ma Jianling
Wang Shuangbao
Head of the Village
Cong Zhijun
Old Tailor
W
Wang Hongwei
Four Eyes
Xiao Xiong
Mother of Four Eyes
Zuohui Tang
Old Mill Worker
Chen Tianyu
Director of the Commune
Q
Qing-yun Fan
Doctor
J
Jie Min
Peasant
Zhang Chenghe
Peasant
Crew
- Director
- Dai Sijie
- Screenplay
- Dai Sijie, Nadine Perront
- Novel
- Dai Sijie
- Director of Photography
- Jean-Marie Dreujou
- Original Music Composer
- Pujian Wang
- Editor
- Luc Barnier, Julia Grégory
- Producer
- Lise Fayolle
Details
- Original title
- 巴尔扎克与小裁缝
- Release date
- 2002-05-16
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- ZH
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin, French
- Countries
- China, France
- Production
- Les Films de la Suane, Le Film, StudioCanal, France 3 Cinéma, TF1 Films Production, Canal+, Bac Films, CNC, China Film Group Corporation