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The Ditch (2011)
Directed by Wang Bing
Drama · 1h 52m
The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh life of these men, who coped with physical exhaustion, extreme cold, starvation and death on a daily basis.
Cast
Yang Haoyu
Li Daguang
Li Jiaqi
Crew
- Director
- Wang Bing
- Screenplay
- Wang Bing
- Novel
- Yang Xianhui
- Director of Photography
- Lu Sheng
- Editor
- Marie-Hélène Dozo
- Producer
- Wang Bing, Mao Hui, Francisco Villa-Lobos , Kong Lihong, Wang Yang
Details
- Original title
- 夹边沟
- Release date
- 2011-04-15
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- ZH
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin
- Countries
- Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Netherlands, South Korea
- Production
- WIL Productions, Les Films de L'Etranger, Wild Bunch, Entre Chien et Loup, Pusan Promotion Plan, CineMart