Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
A tailor-made love story.
20021h 56m
6.8
DramaRomance
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.
Top Cast
Zhou Xun
Little Seamstress
Chen Kun
Luo Min
Liu Ye
Ma Jianling
Wang Shuangbao
Head of the Village
Cong Zhijun
Old Tailor
Wang Hongwei
Four Eyes
Xiao Xiong
Mother of Four Eyes
Zuohui Tang
Old Mill Worker
Chen Tianyu
Director of the Commune
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Qing-yun Fan
Doctor
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Jie Min
Peasant
Zhang Chenghe
Peasant
Xu Yukun
Peasant
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Lia Mei
Female Villager
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Jing Fang
Female Villager
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