Way home - The Road Home

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Movie
German title Way home - The Road Home
Original title Would fùqin mǔqin
Country of production China
original language Mandarin
Publishing year 1999
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK o. A.
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Director Zhang Yimou
script Bao Shi
production Zhang Weiping , Zhao Yu
music San Bao
camera Hou Yong
cut Zhai Ru
occupation

Heimweg - The Road Home ( Chinese  我 的 父親 母親  /  我 的 父亲 母亲 , Pinyin Wǒde fùqin mǔqin ) is a Chinese film from 1999. Zhang Yimou directed, the screenplay was written by Bao Shi as an adaptation of a novel that he also wrote. The main roles were played by Zhang Ziyi , Zheng Hao and Sun Honglei .

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The young businessman Luo Yusheng returns to his home village because of the death of his father (Luo Changyu). The funeral of the deceased turns out to be difficult because the mother (Zhao Di) insists that he be carried back to his home village from the hospital where he died, according to old tradition. Both the mayor of the small mountain village and Luo Yusheng try to talk their mother out of this - there are too few young men in the village who are up to the task. In the following, the parents' love story is told as a flashback.
A school was built in the village around 40 years earlier. The teacher who is supposed to teach the students in the village is young Luo Changyu and comes from outside. Zhao Di, then 18 years old, was fascinated by the young man the first time he met. In the very traditionally dominated village, it is difficult for the pretty young girl to come into contact with the teacher. She tries to connect with him by roaming around the schoolhouse during class, arranging encounters on Luo Changyu's way home, and doing her best when it is her turn to take care of his meals. Luo Changyu notices and shows her affection, but is soon ordered from the village. He has to go to the next bigger city to be interrogated - the communist government suspects him of anti-socialist currents. The departure of the teacher gives Zhao Di a lot of trouble. Every day she waits for him to return well before the village and when it is said that he will not come back, despite the extreme cold, she makes her way into town to look for him there. However, she does not get far and is brought back to the village with severe hypothermia . While she is recovering, Luo Changyu returns to the village for her sake and accepts sanctions against him because the investigation into him is still ongoing. For this reason, the two, who have finally found each other, are only allowed to marry two years later.
Remembering this memorable story leads son Luo Yusheng to take his mother's concerns seriously. He offers the mayor money so that he can recruit strong enough men to carry the coffin back to the village. On the day of the procession, it turns out that this is unnecessary, because when the news of the death of Teacher Luo Changyu, many former students came to pay their last respects. Nobody wants to take the money. Finally, Zhao Di, desperate over the death of her husband, emphasizes that it was always her father's dream that his son would also become a teacher in the village. In order to be close to his father one last time and for the sake of his mother, Luo Yusheng then holds a lesson in the old schoolhouse with his father's textbooks before he leaves.

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