Life!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Life! |
| Original title | Huozhe |
| Country of production |
People's Republic of China , Hong Kong |
| original language | Chinese |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 132 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Zhang Yimou |
| script |
Yu Hua Lu Wei |
| production | Fu-Sheng Chiu , Funhong Kow , Christophe Tseng |
| music | Jiping Zhao |
| camera | Lü Yue |
| cut | Yuan you |
| occupation | |
Life! ( Chinese 活着 , Pinyin Huózhe ) is a 1994 film by director Zhang Yimou with Gong Li in the lead role.
Life! offers a panorama of the 20th century in Chinese history from the perspective of the common man. Based on the original of the same name by the writer Yu Hua , Zhang staged the story of Fugui and his family, who have to prove themselves as standing up men through the many blows of fate. Her simple disposition and her confidence that better times may come are her most important qualities for surviving disasters.
criticism
“Based on popular narrative cinema, the film uses forms of melodrama to celebrate the human will to survive. A work of great emotional power, which goes beyond the fate of the individual and always brings up the (social) political developments in China. "
Awards
- Ge You was named Best Actor at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival . Zhang Yimou won the Grand Jury Prize and was awarded the Ecumenical Jury Prize. He was also nominated for the Palme d' Or.
- In 1995 the film was nominated for a prize in the category Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes .
- Also in 1995, Fu-Sheng Chiu and Zhang Yimou won a British Academy Film Award for Best Non-English Language Film.
Web links
- Life! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Life! at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ life! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .