“After tradition… comes revolution.”

Yellow Earth (1984)

Name: Yellow Earth
Director: Chen Kaige
Genre: Drama, Music, History
Released: 1984-08-19
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Xue Bai, Wang Xueqi, Tuo Tan, Quiang Liu

August 19, 19841h 31mZH

7.2

60 votes

Drama Music History

Overview

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.

Director

Chen Kaige

Writers

Lan Ke, Ziliang Zhang, Chen Kaige