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Synopsis: Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers whose fate mirrors that of the general population in China as massive socio-economic changes sweep across the mainland. The film commences in 1979 with the troupe performing numbers idolizing Mao Zedong, ending in the '80s when the shows reflect the strong Western influences pervading China, covering a decade in which China saw tremendous changes.
Genre: Drama, History
Director(s): Zhangke Jia
Production: Flach Pyramide International
  8 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
Year:
2000
154 min
2,060 Views


Young friends,

this spring will be yours

Yours and mine

The new generation of the 1980s!

The new generation of the 1980s!

We'll meet again in twenty years...

With 8 or 9 wives

and hordes of kids!

Settle down, everyone

We need to talk

Zhang Jun, stand up

Sing us Young Friends Gather

I'm no vocalist

Never mind, sing it

Young friends gathering today

Rowing little boats

n the bright spring...

That's enough!

Quiet!

What were you singing in the truck?

I wasn't leading it

No? I heard you!

You were the loudest

What was it?

Is this a punishment?

Calm down, our priority is unity!

Unity?

I heard it was you

- I don't know

- Don't know?

- Who else then?

- Don't know

Me

You again?

Okay, sing it for us

We'll meet again in twenty years

With 8 or 9 wives

and hordes of kids

Stop! What are you singing?

When is twenty years from now?

Where will our country be by then?

The 4 Modernisations: Industry,

Agriculture, Defence and Science

And what are your goals?

Several wives, hordes of kids?

We practice monogamy

Several wives?

Like landowners before Liberation?

You think you could handle that?

And hordes of kids?

We practice family planning...

heard of birth control?

It's just a song

Where's your discipline?

Yes, there's the Open Door policy

But reforms are still needed

Think about it

Okay, I'll reform

"Long live birth control!

"One child's enough!

"Long live birth control!

"One child's enough!"

Come on in

- What's wrong?

- Forget it

Don't want a perm after all?

It'll look good

What if it doesn't?

It will! Do it for me!

Come on, if Han dares to...

- Say that again!

- No, no

- Anybody there?

- No

Boss, where are you from?

- The south

- Where?

Wenzhou

Far from Guangzhou?

Around 400 km

That far!

You want to go south?

Yeah, my Auntie lives there

- It's nice there

- Really?

Can you turn it off now?

Be patient, perms take time

- I don't want curls

- It'll look great

Really

You'll look just like that poster

Quiet!

The agenda is programme reform

We'll introduce some pop music

We've invited someone from town

to guide us

Maybe some of you don't like it

But it's been popular in the cities

for a while

and there have been

heated debates there

My feeling is...

...pop music is relaxing and...

What?

Nothing

I see Zhong Ping has a perm

Very up-to-date

She looks like a Spanish girl!

She could dance flamenco!

It would look great!

The 5th National Assembly

announces the rehabilitation...

...of Comrade Liu Shaoqi

The Party resolves to return

to the bases of Mao Zedong Thought

under the flag of Mao Zedung Thought

Onward to final victory!

Honour to Comrade Liu Shaoqi!

"Following the same trail,

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