![]() ![]() ![]() One year after publication of the novel, in 1987 Zhang Yimou directs the film adaptation, winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival and the Oscar nomination as best foreign language film. Thanks to his ancestor’s exploits, the narrator creates a mythical genealogy throughout three generations, that tells of the violent and authentic world of an underdeveloped, suffering and immutable China. Published in five different books between 19, the novel narrates the story of a family in rural China at the time of the Japanese invasion. Among the elongated stems and red seeds, the 2012 Nobel prize winner Mo Yan (which means “don’t talk”, synonymous of Guan Moye) gives birth to the epic saga of the clan, protagonist of “Red Sorghum”. Sorghum is food, wine, a lover’s hiding place and even a grave. In the North-East zone of Gaomi, the farmers’ life rolls along to the rhythm of the sorghum that sways in the fields. Movie Title Red Sorghum Director Zhang Yimou Cast Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Rujun Ten, Liu Jia Info 95' ![]()
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