Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

"A tailor-made love story."

2002 1h 56m ★ 6.8 (71 votes) Released

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.

Director

Dai Sijie

Screenplay

Dai Sijie

Screenplay

Nadine Perront

Rating
6.8
Runtime
116 min

Production

Les Films de la Suane
Le Film
StudioCanal StudioCanal
France 3 Cinéma France 3 Cinéma

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chinalove of one's lifebalzac1970sviolinmountain villagecultural revolutiondressmakerbased on memoir or autobiographysichuan

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