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2002

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Directed by Dai Sijie
A tailor-made love story.

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.

Duration

1h 56m

Released

May 16, 2002

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6.8

Rating69

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Lists14

Cast26

  • Zhou Xun
  • Chen Kun
  • Liu Ye
  • Wang Shuangbao
  • Cong Zhijun
  • Wang Hongwei
  • Xiao Xiong
  • Zuohui Tang
  • Chen Tianyu

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