0 Comments on Yellow Earth
Trending
Top
New
Yellow Earth
Drama - 1984
Yellow Earth
7.3
100%
N/A
A Communist soldier is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spellbound by his talk of the freedom women have under Communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.
Director:

Details

Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
86 min
Release date:
19 Aug 1984
Country:
CN
Languages:
Chinese
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
5 wins & 1 nomination.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
The striking images of Yellow Earth... offer respite from a plot that bears the impress of the cultural arm of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee.
– Walter Goodman,
New York Times,
23 Aug 2010
fresh:
The film broke definitively with Chinese studio tradition and introduced a new sense of ambiguity in the relation between political ideology and praxis.
– Pat Graham,
Chicago Reader,
23 Aug 2010
fresh:
Yellow Earth is the most impressive film from mainland China unveiled so far in the West.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
The first 'modern' film to emerge from China, and one of the most thrilling debut features of the '80s.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
See more...
Press esc to close