Film
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
China · France- Director
- Dai Sijie
- Year
- 2002
A tailor-made love story.
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.
Top 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
Directed by
Dai Sijie
Written by
Dai Sijie, Nadine Perront
Produced by
Lise Fayolle
