Yellow Earth
After tradition… comes revolution.
Directed by Chen Kaige
Produced by 广西电影制片厂
A meditative historical drama about ideological collision and human connection, where a communist soldier's encounter with a traditional peasant community becomes a quiet reckoning with competing ways of life.
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.
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