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PIAO LIANG MA MA
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China 1999 / 35 mm / Color / 90 min. | |||
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Single mother Sun Liying has a hard lot in life. Her son Zheng Da is deaf and his father divorced Sun Liying largely because of it. Now Sun is obliged to work and to bring up her son alone. Zheng has now reached school age and she practices speaking to him so that he will be able to attend a normal school. She quits her well-paying job and delivers newspapers so that she can spend the rest of the day with her son. She is convinced that he is as good as other children and that wearing a hearing aid is no different than wearing glasses. But the truth is otherwise. Zheng Da fails his entrance test and ends up being teased by the other children for his handicap and beaten up when he tries to defend himself. As well, his hearing aid is smashed during the struggle and Sun Liying can't really afford to buy him a new one. One of the teachers at the school, Fang Zipin, is attracted to Sun Liying and she doesn't reject his overtures. Giving up everything to help her son has made her a lonely woman and even though she is bitterly disappointed in men, she confesses to her girlfriend that she longs for love and affection. But life has toughened her and when a businessman who owes her money tries to rape her, Sun Liying fights him off. She even succeeds in getting her money back and uses it to buy Zheng Da a new hearing aid. But Zheng Da has a mind of his own and Sun Liying is confronted with some painful realities. |
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| Script: Liu Heng, Sun Zhou, Shao Xiaoli, Wang Bing. Phot.: L� Yue. Ed.: Nancy Muqing, Zhai Ru. Mus.: Zhao Jiping. Cast: Gong Li, Gao Xin, Shi Jingming, Guan Yue, Yue Xiuqing, Li Chengru, L� Liping, Lei Quesheng, Lin Qing, Zhou Yufeng. Prod.: Huang Yong, Zhao Xinxian, Zhu Yang Film, Motion Picture Studio, 354 Xingang Central Road, Guangzhou 510311 (Chine), t�l.: (20-84) 20 22 38, fax: (20-84) 20 95 84 / Guang Dong Pearl River Film Co., 5F. B Tower, Hengcheng Building, 53 Huangpu Road West, Guangzhou 510620 (Chine), t�l.: (86-20) 855 94 272, fax: (86-20) 855 94 284. Sales: The Film Library, 3345 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90010 (�tats-Unis), t�l.: (213) 736-6060, fax: (213) 736-6066, e-mail: [email protected]. | |||
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Sun Zhou Born in Shan Dong province, China in 1954, Sun Zhou worked as a cinematographer on documentaries and educational films at an agricultural studio before switching to television in 1980, where he worked as a cameraman and director. He studied at the Beijing film school and made his first feature in 1987. In 1990 he joined the Zhu Jiang Studio and the following year he co-founded an independent production company. As an actor he starred in Chen Kaige's THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN (1999) and he has lectured on cinema in Germany. His filmography includes Blizzard Coming Tonight, an acclaimed TV series in the '80s, and HEARTFELT (1992), for which he won the Golden Rooster Award. |