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May 16, 2002
116 min
Full-HD

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

Category

Drama Romance

Country

China France

Companies

Les Films de la Suane Le Film StudioCanal France 3 Cinéma TF1 Films Production Canal+ Bac Films CNC China Film Group Corporation

Zhou Xun

Little Seamstress

Chen Kun

Luo Min

Liu Ye

Ma Jianling

Wang Shuangbao

Head of the Village

Cong Zhijun

Old Tailor

Wang Hongwei

Four Eyes

Xiao Xiong

Mother of Four Eyes

Zuohui Tang

Old Mill Worker

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