
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
A tailor-made love story.
2002 zh 116 minutes
Rating: 6.8
Plot
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
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Cast

Zhou Xun
Little Seamstress

Chen Kun
Luo Min

Liu Ye
Ma Jianling

Wang Shuangbao
Head of the Village

Cong Zhijun
Old Tailor

Wang Hongwei
Four Eyes

Xiao Xiong
Mother of Four Eyes

Zuohui Tang
Old Mill Worker

Chen Tianyu
Director of the Commune

Qing-yun Fan
Doctor

Jie Min
Peasant

Zhang Chenghe
Peasant

Xu Yukun
Peasant

Lia Mei
Female Villager

Jing Fang
Female Villager

Li Peng
Female Villager

Heng Fei Zhao
Female Villager

Yao Liu
Female Villager

Yulin Chen
Female Villager

Chun Hua Xu
Female Villager

Fang Zong Zhao
Female Villager

Wa Su
Head of the Village's Daughter-in-Law

Quilène Boileux
Airport Shop Assistant

Dandan Yang
Mrs. Lao

Guy-Pierre Bennet
Journalist (voice)

Wei Chen
Wife of the Head of the Village