Yellow Earth (1984)

Name: Yellow Earth
Director: Chen Kaige
Genre: Drama
Released: 1984-08-19
Duration: 1 h 26 min
Cast: Wang Xueqi, Bai Xue, Tuo Tan, Quiang Liu

Mandarin 1h 26m

Drama

Directed by Chen Kaige Starring Wang Xueqi, Bai Xue

Release Date 19 Aug 1984

About Yellow Earth Movie

Yellow Earth, released in 1984, is a Drama Movie from director Chen Kaige. Featuring Wang Xueqi, Bai Xue, Tuo Tan. Available in Mandarin. Yellow earth focuses on the story of a Communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the Army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spellbound by his talk of the freedom women have under Communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.