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Under the Hawthorn Tree ( China 2010 )

Color: Fiction / color, 114’

Direction: Yimou Zhang

Screenplay: Ai Mi, Lichuan Yin, Xiaobai Gu, Mei Ah.

Director of Photography: Xiaoding Zhao

Sound: Steve Burgess, Jing Tao

Music: Qigang Chen

Editing: Peicong Meng

Cast: Dongyu Zhou (Jing), Shawn Dou (Sun), Meijuan Xi (Mère de Jing).

Production: Beijing New Picture Film Co

Synopsis

A Romance sparks between a young woman and a young man from different economic backgrounds during China’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and ’70s.

Réalisateur

Zhang Yimou, born November 14, 1951, is a Chinese film director, producer, writer, actor and former cinematographer. He attended the Beijing Film Academy and is counted amongst the fifth generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with “Red Sorghum”. His films are particularly noted for their rich use of color, as can be seen in some of his early films, like “Raise the lantern”, and in his “Wuxia” films like “Hero” and “House of the flying daggers”. His most recent film is a historical drama war film called “The flowers of war”.