Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
May 16 2002
•2h 56m
•Drama
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.
Cast
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Zhou Xun
Little Seamstress
Chen Kun
Luo Min
Liu Ye
Ma Jianling
Wang Shuangbao
Head of the Village
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