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Dominican Rep. The Ditch
- Original title
- Jiabiangou (The Ditch)
- Year
- 2010
- Running time
- 112 min.
- Country
Hong Kong- Director
- Screenwriter
- Wang Bing. Novel: Xianhui Yang
- Cast
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Hong Kong-France-Belgium;
- Genre
- Drama | Small Town Life (Non-North American). 1950s
- Synopsis
- At the end of the 1950s, the Chinese government condemned thousands of citizens – considered “right wing dissidents” due their past activities, criticisms of the Communist Party or simply their backgrounds and families – to forced labour camps. Deported for re-education to the Jiabiangou Camp in Western China, in the heart of the Gobi Desert, some 3,000 poor or middle-class “intellectuals” from Gansu Province were forced to submit to conditions of absolute destitution. As a result of backbreaking physical labour, an unrelentingly extreme climate and terrible food shortages, many perished nightly in the ditches where they slept.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2011: Las Palmas Film Festival: Special Jury Prize, Audience Award, Signis Award
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