Red Sorghum

Film Description

A sumptuous film that is two parts family melodrama, one part Chinese nationalist history, in which an unseen narrator weaves the tale of his grandmother, a poor rural Chinese girl sold into marriage to a leprous winemaker. After her husband's death, the grandmother transforms the winery into a idyllic community of productive labourers, only to have her progress rent asunder by the invading Japanese. Winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival.

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• Contemporary Film / Drama
• Contemporary Film / Period, Costume, Historical
• World Cinema / China
• World Cinema / Asia