The third feature by the director of “Yellow Earth” and “The Big Parade” is set in a remote forest area of Yunnen Province during the Cultural Revolution. A young man from the city, sent to the countryside in a work brigade, is chosen to be a teacher at a village school, despite his own lack of formal education. There he discovers an immense gap between the needs of his students and the culture he is required to offer them. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
35923
Language
Chinese
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Foreign language films
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Teaching
Feature films
Feature films → Feature films - China
Foreign language films
History → China - History
History → History
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)