Yellow Earth (1984)
Huang tu di (original title)Reference View | Change View
- TV-PG
- 1h 26min
- Drama, History
- 1988 (USA)
- Movie
A communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor peasant family, giving hope to the teenage daughter in escaping an arranged marriage.
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- 8 wins & 2 nominations.
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Cast
| Xueqi Wang | ... |
Gu Quing - The Soldier
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Bai Xue | ... |
Cuiqiao - The Girl
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Quiang Liu | ... |
Hanhan - The Boy
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Tuo Tan | ... |
The Father
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Directed by
| Kaige Chen | ||
Written by
| Kaige Chen | ... | () |
| Lan Ke | ... | (novel) |
| Ziliang Zhang | ... | (screenplay) |
Music by
| Jiping Zhao | ||
Cinematography by
| Yimou Zhang | ||
Production Management
| Keqi Guo | ... | production manager |
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- International Film Circuit (1988) (United States) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Ronin Films (1986) (Australia) (theatrical)
- Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI) (1986) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- The Home Cinema Group (1990) (Australia) (video) (under the 'Curzon' label)
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Storyline
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'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spell-bound by his talk of the freedom women have under communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.
Written by Ronald Aiken |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | The film was filmed near Yan'An, which is considered the motherland of the Chinese cultural revolution. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in Fight the Power: Protest in Film (2011). See more » |