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Yellow Earth
CHINA · 1984

Yellow Earth

Zhang Yimou
cultural exchange rural poverty communist ideology family dynamics folk traditions
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Synopsis

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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