Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

6.8
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 116 min
  • Premiere: 2002. May 16.

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.

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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

Jie Min

Peasant

Xu Yukun

Peasant

Lia Mei

Female Villager

Jing Fang

Female Villager

Li Peng

Female Villager

Heng Fei Zhao

Female Villager

Yao Liu

Female Villager

Yulin Chen

Female Villager

Chun Hua Xu

Female Villager

Fang Zong Zhao

Female Villager

Wa Su

Head of the Village's Daughter-in-Law

Quilène Boileux

Airport Shop Assistant

Dandan Yang

Mrs. Lao

Guy-Pierre Bennet

Journalist (voice)

Wei Chen

Wife of the Head of the Village

Art

Nadine Perront

Production Design

Cao Juiping

Production Design

Camera

Jean-Marie Dreujou

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Tong Huamiao

Costume Design

Directing

Dai Sijie

Director

Editing

Production

Wang Zhebin

Executive Producer

Lise Fayolle

Producer

Bernard Lorain

Executive Producer

Pujian Wang

Executive Producer

Sound

Pujian Wang

Original Music Composer

Writing

Dai Sijie

Novel

Dai Sijie

Screenplay

Nadine Perront

Screenplay

Art

Nadine Perront

Production Design

Cao Juiping

Production Design

Camera

Jean-Marie Dreujou

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Tong Huamiao

Costume Design

Directing

Dai Sijie

Director

Editing

Production

Wang Zhebin

Executive Producer

Lise Fayolle

Producer

Bernard Lorain

Executive Producer

Pujian Wang

Executive Producer

Sound

Pujian Wang

Original Music Composer

Writing

Dai Sijie

Novel

Dai Sijie

Screenplay

Nadine Perront

Screenplay