Plot
Freely adapted from Gabriel García Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the film follows the investigation of a local teacher's murder in a small and desperately poor rural village, the story of the crime gradually pieced together from the fragmented memories of witnesses forced to testify at an inquest. Sharing with her Fifth Generation colleagues Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang a remarkable eye for the barren landscapes of northern China and a fascination with small-town life — especially those enduring superstitions that Communism failed to erase — director Li Shaohong also introduces several formal innovations, particularly in storytelling structure, that remain unprecedented in Chinese cinema.
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Cast
Zhaohui Gong
张强国
Hu Yajie
李明光
Lu Hui
林长
Wong Kwong-Kuen
调查员
Yan Xie
李狗娃
Zhao Jun
李平娃
Kong Lin
李红杏
Ju Xingmao
满意
Miao Miao
崔永芳
Linlang Ye
盆嫂
