Yellow earth

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Movie
German title Yellow earth
Original title 黃 土地
Huang Tudi
Country of production China
original language Chinese
Publishing year 1984
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Chen Kaige
script Chen Kaige , Zhang Ziliang
music Zhao Jiping
camera Zhang Yimou
occupation

Yellow Earth ( Chinese  黃 土地  /  黃 土地 , Pinyin huáng tǔdì ) is a Chinese film by Chen Kaige from 1984. It is considered a milestone in modern Chinese filmmaking because it broke with the political-artistic that had prevailed in China up to now Standards and was the first film in China to gain international recognition after the Mao era. Yellow Earth is the key film of the “fifth generation” of Chinese filmmakers, whose best-known representatives included director Chen Kaige and his cameraman Zhang Yimou .

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The film is set in China around 1940 in the poor loess plain in the catchment area of ​​the Yellow River . A young and idealistic soldier in the communist army was sent out across the country to collect folk songs from the peasants so that they could be transformed into revolutionary ways. In a village he meets the girl Cuiqiao, her old father and the younger brother and has to realize that the lives of the people are not only characterized by deep poverty and deeply rooted traditions, but that the songs that tell of that very life not suitable for revolutionary secondary recycling. He wins the trust of the 13 year old Cuiqiao, who runs the household of the small and particularly poor family. He watches her, listens to her singing, and cautiously seeks conversation. She is the only one in the village who is willing to listen to his ideas of freedom and equality. She hears his stories from a place where women are worth more than in their village. A little later he moves on, Cuiqiao has to obey the traditions and the material needs of the family and is married to a much older man. The proceeds of this marriage, her father told her, are planned in order to be able to marry off the younger brother appropriately later. The hope that the soldier had awakened collapses.

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