Lan feng zheng (1993)

Director:

Zhuangzhuang Tian

Writer:

Xiao Mao (writer)

Release Date:

25 March 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

On Dry Well Lane in Beijing in 1953, Chen Shujuan and Lin Shaolong marry. A year later their son, nicknamed Tietou (Iron Head)...

Plot Keywords:

Cultural Revolution | Communism

Awards:

6 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Tian Yi	...	Tietou as an infant
Wenyao Zhang	...	Tietou as a child
Xiaoman Chen	...	Tietou as a teenager
Liping Lü	...	Chen Shujuan
Quanxin Pu	...	Lin Shaolong
Xuejian Li	...	Li Guodong (Uncle Li)
Baochang Guo	...	3rd husband
Ping Zong	...	Chen Shusheng
Quanzhong Chu	...	Chen Shuyan
Xiaoying Song	...	Sis
Hong Zhang	...	Zhu Ying
Yanjin Liu	...	Shujuan's mother
Bin Li	...	Granny
Zhang Lu	...	Mrs. Lan
Donglin Guo	...	Lin Yunwei

Also Known As:

The Blue Kite

Runtime:

UK:138 min | USA:140 min

Country:

China | Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:M | Finland:S | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | Singapore:PG

Company:

Beijing Film Studio

Trivia:

When it became clear at some point during production that the Chinese government would ban this film, the producers smuggled the negative to Japan, completed post production there and sold the rights worldwide. Peking was not amused, and in consequence, director Zhuangzhuang Tian was not allowed to work for several years.

I can't stop thinking it might not be true, but...

According to some sort of reason, I didn't know this movie until these days. After watching it, I cannot stop thinking this might not be true, but I know it is a real story. Or I'd rather say "they are real" because this kind of story almost happened in every Chinese family.It might be fortunate that I'v got a complete family, but I can imagine what would happen if they, my parents, were not so lucky.

Everything in the story are as real as they might be. To stigmatize and to be stigmatized, to live and to die, to resist and to be resisted, to beat and to be beaten while life was still going on. Attacking the rightists, perish the four vermins, big lunge, making steel, disasters of 3 years... all these things were filled in the daily conversations of Chinese nowadays.

but I don't think we'v paid enough attention to this period of Chinese history. Especially young people do not even know it. This movie is still forbidden in China. Willing to see its public show.