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Released
1988 · FILM

Red Sorghum

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Written by
Runtime
91 min
Language
ZH
DramaHistoryRomance

Synopsis

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.

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Principal cast & crew: 18

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Craft leads on file

Edited by Yuan DuShot by Changwei GuScored by Jiping Zhao

Also known as

  • Hong gao liangde
  • Hóng Gāoliangde
  • Rotes Kornfeldde
  • Hong gao liangen
  • Red Sorghumen
  • Sorgo rojoes
  • Le Sorgho rougefr
  • Sorgo rossoit

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