Yellow Earth

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Yellow Earth

Release Date: August 19, 1984

Year	:	1984
Slogan	:	«After tradition… comes revolution.»
Genres	:	Drama, Music, History
Production Companies	:	Guangxi Film Studio
Director	:	Chen Kaige
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Writers	:	Chen Kaige, Ziliang Zhang, Lan Ke
RunTime	:	86 mins.

A Communist soldier 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.