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A Girl from Hunan

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Original title

Xiangnu xiaoxiao

Year

1987

Running time

110 min.

Country

China

Director

U Lan, Fei Xie

Screenwriter

Zhang Xian. Novel: Congwen Shen

Cast

Music

Ye Xiaogang

Cinematography

Jing Sheng Fu

Producer

Beijing Film College Youth Film Studio

Genre

Drama | 1900s

Synopsis

China, 1900. Xiaoxiao, a girl of about 12, comes to a mountain village for an arranged marriage with a two-year-old boy, Chunguan. Strict clan rules govern all behaviors. She becomes her husband's nanny (he calls her "sister"). Soon, Huagou, a local peasant, takes notice of Xiaoxiao, singing suggestive songs as they work and sending her compliments via the boy. At about the same time, Xiaoxiao sees "girl students" in the nearby town: young women her age who have friends who are boys, who read, who experience freedom. Xiaoxiao and Huagou begin a passionate affair, and, to her horror, she gets pregnant. Does death at the hands of the clan elders await her, or sale into slavery?

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A Girl from Hunan

1987

U Lan, Fei Xie