An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.
Stills
8
Cast
Gong Li Jiu'er
Jiang Wen Yu
Teng Rujun Uncle Luohan Liu Ji Jiu'er's Son
Qian Ming Jiu'er's Grandmother
Ji Chunhua Sanpao
Zhai Chunhua Hu Er
Jia Zhaoji Zhang Yuxiang
Zhou Guiyun
Yang Qianbin
Xu Guoqing
Screenings in Brussels
No upcoming screenings.