Expansive and undeniably brilliant, Jia Zhang-ke's lengthy drama views life in the post-Mao People's Republic of China through the changing fortunes of a group of young provincial actors. The year is 1979, and Cui Minliang (Wang Hong-wei) and his friends Zhang Jun (Liang Jing-dong) and Yao Eryong (Wang Bo) all belong to the Peasant Culture Group, a traveling theatrical company based in the northern village of Fenyang. Touring the tiny communes and villages that dot the Shanxi province, the young men remain unaware of the world around them, but are nevertheless enthralled by the foreign pop culture that has begun to trickle in: the bell-bottoms that are all the rage e...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
155 mins