Red Sorghum

(1988)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 256 votes

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Year: 1988

Runtime: 91 мин

Country: China

Director: Чжан Имоу

Cast: Гун Ли, Цзян Вэнь, 滕汝骏, Ji Liu, Ming Qian, Ji Chunhua, Zhai Chunhua, Jia Zhaoji, Yuxiang Zhang, Guiyun Zhou

Plot

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.