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The Ditch

The Ditch

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 6, 2010

Runtime

1h 52m

Genres

Drama

User Score

72%

Original Title

夹边沟

Production Companies

WIL Productions, Les Films de L'Etranger

Director

Wang Bing

Description

The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh life of these men, who coped with physical exhaustion, extreme cold, starvation and death on a daily basis.