To Live
by Yimou Zhang
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Actor: Ben Niu, Deng Fei, Li Gong, Xiao Cong, You GeDirector: Yimou Zhang
Cinematographer: Yue Lu
Editor: Yuan Du
Producer: Christophe Tseng
Producer: Fu-Sheng Chiu
Producer: Funhong Kow
Writer: Hua Yu
Writer: Wei Lu
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Chinese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of To Live
Movie Review: To Live and to Teach
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched this film when it first came out and again recently. It is a sweeping, yet personal representation of the suffering of the chinese people during the second half of the 20c. Though the film maker needed to disguise the horror of many episodes in the lives of his characters behind humor or overly gentle portrayal, it does not take much to see past this to the real messages of the film. I watched the film with my 7th grade class. They were deeply moved and were given images to attach to abstract historical periods. They loved it. I highly recommend this film to all viewers over the age of 10.
Summary of To Live
Fugui & jiazhen endure tumultuous events in china as they move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. They raise a family & survive managing to live from the 40s to the 70s in this epic but personal story of life through an amazing period. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 07/24/2007 Run time: 133 minutes Rating: NrOne of the best films of 1994, To Live is a bold, energetic masterpiece from Zhang Yimou, the foremost director from China's influential "fifth generation" of filmmakers. Continuing his brilliant collaboration with China's best-known actress Gong Li (their previous films include Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), Zhang weaves an ambitious tapestry of personal and political events, following the struggles of an impoverished husband and wife (Ge You, Gong Li) from their heyday in the 1940s to the hardships that accompanied the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. They raise two children amidst a Communist regime, surviving numerous setbacks and yet managing, somehow, to live. Both intimate and epic, Zhang's film encompasses the simplest and most profound realities of Chinese life during this controversial period, and for their honesty, Zhang and Gong Li faced a two-year ban on future collaborations. To Live is a testament to their art, transcending politics to celebrate the tenacity of ordinary people in the wake of turbulent history. --Jeff Shannon
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