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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress(2002)
Status: Released
Date: 2002-05-16
68%
74 Votes
Time: 1h 56m
A tailor-made love story.
Overview:
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
Languages: Mandarin.
Countries:
China,
France
ProductionCompanies: 
Les Films de la Suane
Le Film
Movie: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Top 10 Billed Cast
周迅
Little Seamstress
陈坤
Luo Min
刘烨
Ma Jianling
王双宝
Head of the Village
Cong Zhijun
Old Tailor
Wang Hongwei
Four Eyes
Xiao Xiong
Mother of Four Eyes
Zuohui Tang
Old Mill Worker
陈天雨
Director of the Commune
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