New Year Sacrifice (1956)

New Year Sacrifice (1956)

Release Date: 1956, October 19
Directors: Sang Hu
Countries: China
Production: Beijing Film Studio, Beijing Film Studio
Cast: Xiaotong Che, Ding Weimin, Guan Zongxiang, Li Di, Yan Han, Shi Lin, Ling Yuan, Li Mengyao, Jian Li, Feng Jin, Sida Yuan, Yu-Chen Li

Overview:

In a mountain hamlet in eastern China, a poor woman faces trial after trial. Sold into marriage as a child, she is left a young widow and enslaved by her mother-in-law, who sells her to a poor peasant. Her second marriage turns out to be happy until fate takes away her husband and son. Now seen as a bearer of bad luck, she becomes a social outcast.