Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)

A tailor-made love story.

Release Date: 2002, May 16
Directors: Dai Sijie
Countries: China, France
Production: Les Films de la Suane, Le Film, StudioCanal, France 3 Cinéma
Cast: Chen Kun, Zhou Xun, Liu Ye, Wang Hongwei, Wang Shuangbao, Zhang Chenghe, Xu Yukun, Li Peng, Wei Chen, Yao Liu, Jing Fang, Xiao Xiong

Overview:

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.