Yellow Earth
Original title: 黄土地
“After tradition… comes revolution.”
7.2(61)19841h 31mZH
Directed by Chen Kaige
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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traditionpeasantarranged marriagefolk musicfolk singermilitarychinese communismdroughtcommunist party1930s
