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The Eleventh Child (1998)
Directed by Dai Sijie
Drama · 1h 31m
Restaurant owner Tang the 11th, learning his older brother, Tang the First is ill, returns to the his remote native village, long plagued by leprosy. Superstition holds that a cure can be obtained when a family of five sons and five daughters makes possible the death of a fish from the Lake of Heaven, since the leprosy remedy is in the flesh of this fish. It just so happens that Tang the 11th has five sons, four daughters, and a pregnant wife.
Cast
Tapa Sudana
Crew
- Director
- Dai Sijie
- Screenplay
- Nadine Perront, Dai Sijie
- Writer
- Nadine Perront, Dai Sijie
- Director of Photography
- Guy Dufaux
- Original Music Composer
- Jean-Marie Sénia
- Editor
- Marie Castro
Details
- Original title
- Nguol thùa
- Release date
- 1998-11-24
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- VI
- Spoken languages
- Vietnamese, French
- Countries
- Vietnam, France, Canada
- Production
- La Sept Cinéma, Paris New York Production