A Withered Tree Meets Spring

枯木逢春

A critical hit during one of China’s most politically charged periods, Zheng’s follow-up to his 1959 anniversary epics merged Soviet-style socialist realism with his own breakthroughs in film technique, specifically his use of continuous camera movement in the spirit of traditional Chinese scrolls. Tractor-kino at its finest, the film revolves around two rural lovers—one struck with a deadly disease—and their eventual survival thanks to socialist medical advances.

Réalisation

Zheng Jun-li

Scénario

Wang Lian

Scénario

Zheng Jun-li

Musique

Ge Yan

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02/01/1961

Langue originale

Chinois