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Yellow Earth

Yellow Earth

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 19, 1984

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Drama, Music, History

User Score

72%

Original Title

黄土地

Production Companies

Guangxi Film Studio

Director

Chen Kaige

Description

A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust…