Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
(2017, original release: 2002)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

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DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
1364067
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames

Based on the best-selling novel set during China's cultural revolution, this acclaimed film is about two young men, university students, who are sent to a remote mountain village for a Maoist re-education, to purge them of their decadent Western education. Amid the back-breaking work and stifling ignorance of the community, the local beauties are the only respite from their miserable life. But none compare to the granddaughter of the region’s tailor. With a secret cache of forbidden books, they set about to woo her

In Process Record

Film

Originally produced by First Run Features in 2002

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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