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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)

巴尔扎克与小裁缝
116 minutes ZH Drama
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.
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Zhou Xun
Little Seamstress
Chen Kun
Luo Min
Ye Liu
Ma Jianling
Wang Shuangbao
Head of the Village
Cong Zhijun
Old Tailor
Wang Hongwei
Four Eyes
Xiao Xiong
Mother of Four Eyes
Zuohui Tang
Old Mill Worker
Tianyu Chen
Director of the Commune
Jie Min
Peasant

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Production companies: Les Films de la Suane, Le Film
Production countries: China, France

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