After tradition… comes revolution.
A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust.
- Director
- Chen Kaige
- Writers
- Ziliang Zhang, Chen Kaige
Themes1930sarranged marriagechinese communismcommunist partydrought
