Two great sheep
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Two great sheep |
| Original title | Hao da yi dui yang |
| Country of production | People's Republic of China |
| original language | Chinese |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Liu Hao |
| script | Lui Hao, Xia Tianmin |
| production | Wang Xinping |
| music | Xu Zhitong |
| camera | Li Bingquiang |
| cut | Lui Hao, Qiao Jinglin |
| occupation | |
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Two Great Sheep ( Chinese 好大一对羊 , Pinyin hǎo Da Yi Dui Yáng ) is a Chinese film director Liu Hao from the year 2004 .
action
The film takes place in a small village in Yunnan . Two rare foreign sheep are brought to the village for a development project in the poor mountain region. With the breeding of the precious animals money should be earned in the future.
The sheep brought to the village by Vice Provincial Governor Liu and entrusted to the farmer Zhao Deshan, one of the poorest in the village. Since he now administers the capital of the village, he rises in the hierarchy of the village; Residents who used to avoid him now come to him. The village chairman is also friendly towards him and provides him with material for building a stable, among other things.
Deshan, who with his wife devotedly takes care of the animals, lacks the necessary knowledge about the breeding of this type of sheep. So he gives them fried noodles to eat because they refuse the grass of the barren landscape. To satisfy the hunger of the sheep, he travels to the city to get food for the sheep from there and to other mountain valleys, where he can get some grass. After all, he even takes the sheep into his home to give them protection from the cold weather.
After a while the sheep become pregnant, but Liu fetches them from the village. Then Deshan and his wife set out to bring back the sheep they have cherished. In the last scene they are seen stealing the animals, but nothing is done to stop them.
Production and censorship
The screenplay, which is based on the novel by Xie Tianmin, was initially not objected to by the Chinese film supervisory authority, and the film was funded by the Beijing Film Academy . The sponsorship agreement stipulated that it would be broadcast on television two years later.
However, the production company failed to get the film into theaters within the two years, so the film was first shown on Chinese state television CCTV after two years . After this broadcast, party cadres from Yunnan enforced that the film was re-examined by censors, who then banned the film from being re-broadcast or shown in cinemas. In Europe and America the film was shown at several film festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival .
Reviews
In one of the few reviews it has received, the film is praised as "a well-observed, warm and humane satire of rural life in a poverty-stricken community" in China.
Film critic Stephen Holden of the New York Times said the film either as "edifying story about teamwork and team spirit" or "send-up of the scaremongering forming obedience to authority" understand.
Web links
- Two Great Sheep in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Filmkritik with detailed Synopsis (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film review from asianfilms.org ( memento of the original from February 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : " [This movie is] a deliciously observed, warmly human satire on Chinese rural manners set in a hardscrabble community. "
- ↑ Criticism by the New York Times ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Stephen Holden
