Yellow Earth

• Liu Qiang: Hanhan
• Tan Tuo: Father
• Wang Xueqi: Gu Qing
• Xue Bai: Cuiqiao

Yellow Earth (Chinese黄 土地, Pinyin huáng tǔdì ) is a Chinese film directed by Chen Kaige from the year 1984. Considered as a milestone in modern Chinese filmmaking, because he broke with the hitherto existing in the People's Republic of China political- artistic standards and was the first film in the PRC, which was perceived internationally after the Mao era. Yellow Earth is the key film of the " Fifth Generation" of Chinese filmmakers, among whose most famous representatives of the directors Chen Kaige and cinematographer Zhang Yimou.

Action

The film is set in China in 1940 in the desperately poor Lößebene in the catchment area of the Yellow River. A young and idealistic soldier of the Communist army was sent to take over the country to collect folk songs from the farmers so that they can be transformed in revolutionary ways. He arrives in a village on the girl Cuiqiao, her old father and younger brother and needs to realize that the life of the people is not only characterized by deep poverty and deep -rooted traditions, but that the songs that tell of that very life, the revolutionary secondary use are not suitable. He wins the confidence of approximately 13 years Cuiqiao who runs the household of small and very poor family. He watches her, listen to her singing and studied carefully the conversation. She is the only one in the village ever willing to listen to his ideas of freedom and equality. She hears his stories from a place where women are worth more than in their village. A little later he moves on, Cuiqiao must obey the traditions and the material needs of the family and is married to a much older man. The proceeds of this marriage, said her father, is scheduled later to be able to marry the younger brother appropriate. The hope that had awakened the soldier collapses.