Distribution Territory/ies:
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Germany
Norway
United Kingdom

Call Nº: 02/2005

International Title: Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress

Coproducing Contry/ies:  France  China 

Production Company/ies: Productions Internationales "Le Film"

Director: Dai Sijie

Script: Nadine Perront / Dai Sijie

Cast: Chen Kun / Chung Zhi Jun / Liu Ye / Wang Suang Bao / Wang Hong Wei

Synopsis: Two teenage best friends, Luo and Dai, are sent to a far-flung outpost of Maoist re-education. Sons of "reactionary intellectuals", the boys keep their spirits up after arduous work in the fields and coal mines by playing Dai's violin - which they save from destruction by re-inventing Mozart lieder as songs of the Chinese revolution.