TO LIVE

Ge You, Gong Li, Niu Ben

Samuel Goldwyn; Directed by Zhang Yimou

Rated R; 130 minutes; 1994

, VHS

As a powerful and penetrating perspective of life in China, this ambitious and political film is an epic yet intimate tale of the grim struggle that results from living under Communist rule. TO LIVE follows a family’s struggle with love, money, and hardship from the 1940s through the1960s in revolutionary China.

In Chinese with English subtitles

 

 

AWARDS

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1994