Not One Less

  • Wei Minzhi: Wei Minzhi
  • Zhang Huike: Zhang Huike

Not One Less - Not One Less (Original Title:一个 都不能少, Yi gè Dou bù Neng shǎo ) is a Chinese film drama from director Zhang Yimou about a substitute teacher in a Chinese village, the sense of duty examined in the nearest town after one of their students, because it leaves out of poverty, the school and in the city looking for work. The film depicts the poverty in the rural Chinese population, the children forced to neglect their education in order to provide for their families.

Action

In the center of the story is the 13 -year-old substitute teacher Wei Minzhi that gets the job from the original teacher of the village, frugal with school materials, especially with the chalk, deal with it and take good care of their students, especially to keep all together the students.

One day, the class clown Zhang Huike not appear to class, the teacher makes dutiful and determined to search for him and learns of the sick mother that Zhang Huike had gone into the city to there money for the repayment of the debts of the family to earn. First she tries to earn the money for a bus ride into the city together with the other children in their class. Together with the children, she calculates how much she needs for a round - trip ticket, how much money they can earn while working in a brick factory and how long they will need. However, the bus ride will cost more than they and the children can earn at work in the brick factory and after a failed attempt of the Black riding it makes walking and hitchhiking alone on the way to the city.

Once in town tries Minzhi Wei Zhang Huike unsuccessfully an exclamation at the station, where he was last seen and to find via search list, but it loses later. Finally, the director of a television station after her stubborn attempt with this was to get in touch, feel sorry for her and allows her a call in a television broadcast.

With this call, it eventually comes to merging the teacher with her students wanted and both are driven with a camera crew in the village. By reporting the two also come with many monetary and material donations back to the village. At the end of the film, some students write their class with the donated, colored chalk words of hope and appreciation for their teacher on the blackboard.

Awards

  • International Film Festival of Venice 1999 Golden Lion
  • Lanterna Magica Award
  • Sergio Trasatti Award
  • Best Director, Zhang Yimou
  • Viewers Award
  • Best non - European film ( nominated )
  • Best Foreign Director - Zhang Yimou
  • Golden Butterfly
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