Huang tu di

"After tradition… comes revolution."

Aug 19 1984 TV-PG 1h 26m
Drama, History, Music

A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust…

Plot

'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spell-bound by his talk of the freedom women have under communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.

Written by

Kaige Chen, Lan Ke, Ziliang Zhang

Directed by

Kaige Chen

Production Countries

China

Production Companies

Guangxi Film Studio

Languages

Awards

8 wins & 5 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
2,653
Average Rating
7.1 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA