Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
A tailor-made love story.
Film20021h 56m
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- Director
- Dai Sijie
- Language
- Chinese
- Released
- 2002-05-16
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
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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.
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