Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

May 16, 2002

1h 56m

★ 6.8

A tailor-made love story.

Overview

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Les Films de la Suane

Le Film

StudioCanal

France 3 Cinéma

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Trailers

Cast

Little Seamstress

Zhou Xun

Luo Min

Chen Kun

Ma Jianling

Liu Ye

Head of the Village

Wang Shuangbao

Old Tailor

Cong Zhijun

Four Eyes

Wang Hongwei

Mother of Four Eyes

Xiao Xiong

Old Mill Worker

Zuohui Tang

Director of the Commune

Chen Tianyu

Doctor

Qing-yun Fan

Peasant

Jie Min

Peasant

Zhang Chenghe

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