The Road Home (1999 film)
- Zhang Ziyi Zhao Di
- Zheng Hao Luo Changyu
- Sun Honglei: Luo Yusheng
- Yulian Zhao: Zhao Di ( old)
- Bin Li: grandmother
Home - The Road Home ( Chinese:我 的 父亲 母亲/我 的 父亲 母亲, Wǒde Fuqin mǔqin ) is a Chinese film from 1999, Zhang Yimou directed, wrote the screenplay Bao Shi as an adaptation of a novel also descended from him. . The main roles were played by Zhang Ziyi, Zheng Hao and Sun Honglei.
Action
The young businessman Luo Yusheng returns due to the death of his father ( Luo Changyu ) in his home village back. The funeral of the deceased is difficult, because the mother ( Zhao Di) insists that he is carried back to the old tradition of the hospital where he died, in his home village. Both the mayor of the small mountain village and Luo Yusheng try to dissuade the mother this - there are too few young men in the village who would be up to the task. In the following, the love story of the parents is told as a flashback. About 40 years ago a school will be built in the village. The teacher should inform the students of the village, the young Luo Changyu and comes from outside. Zhao Di, at this time, 18 years, is fascinated by the young man already at the first encounter. In the very traditionally dominated village it is hard for the pretty young girl to come into contact with the teacher. You try to connect to it by clips during class at the school house, brings about encounters at home from Luo Changyu and best efforts when it is your turn to take care of his meals. Luo Changyu noticed and returns her affection, but abbefohlen from the village very soon. It must in the nearest large city to undergo in order to interrogations - the communist government suspected him of anti- socialist tendencies. The departure of the teacher makes Zhao Di much to create. It waits every day well before the village on his return, and as it is said that he will not come back, it makes up in spite of great cold on the way to the city to look for him there. However, they will not get far and will brought back to the village with a strong supercooling. While she is recovering, Luo Changyu her sake returns to the village and thus takes sanctions against in buying because the investigations are still ongoing against him. For this reason, it is the two who have finally found, also allowed only two years later to marry. The memory of this memorable story brings the son Luo Yusheng to take his mother's concerns seriously. It offers the mayor money so this enough strong men enlists the back carry the coffin in the village. On the day of the procession turns out that this is unnecessary, since the news of the death of teacher Luo Changyu many former students who entered the way to pay him their last respects. Nobody wants to take the money. Last emphasizes the desperate over the death of her husband Zhao Di, that it had always been the dream of the father that his son also became a teacher of the village. To his father one last time to be near his mother's sake and Luo Yusheng then holds before his departure from a lesson in the old school house with the textbooks of his father.
Honors
- Grand Prize of the Jury of the Berlinale 2000
- Audience Award ( Best Foreign Film ) at the Sundance Film Festival 2001