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Red Sorghum

Red Sorghum

Original title
Hong Gao Liang
Year
1987
Gender
Drama , History , War
Director
Zhang Yimou
Country
China
Details
91 minutes / colored / sound

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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