Red Sorghum

A sumptuous film that is two parts family melodrama, one part Chinese nationalist history, in which an unseen narrator weaves the tale of his grandmother, a poor rural Chinese girl sold into marriage to a leprous winemaker. After her husband's death, the grandmother transforms the winery into an idyllic community of productive labourers, only to have her progress rent asunder by the invading Japanese.

Winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival.

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Red Sorghum

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