Singapore Chinese Film Festival 2019 (Golden Village)
Winter After Winter
冬去冬又来
Language
Mandarin & Japanese with English & Chinese subtitles
Cast
Yan Bingyan, Gao Qiang, Liu Di, Zhang Zhiyong, Yuan Liguo
Synopsis
The 48 th International Film Festival Rotterdam: Bright Future Main Programme
第48届鹿特丹国际电影节：入围光明未来首映单元
Winter after Winter, shot in black-and-white, is set during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. It is 1944 and the Japanese are searching north- eastern China for young men who can be set to work as forced labour. In order to secure the bloodline, father Lao Si asks his youngest son to make sister-in-
law Kun pregnant. Lao Si's second son has fled the Japanese, the third is impotent. Just when the shy boy is stooping over Kun, he and his brother are taken away.
Without his father knowing, the youngest son returns seven months later and hides in Kun’s cellar. As a result, Kun does get pregnant, which leads to all kinds of complications when she is married off and the fugitive son, now a guerrilla, occasionally returns home. Xing Jian situates the action in his home region and films the harsh life of a family in long takes with fluid camerawork.
这是青年导演邢健继处女作《冬》之后的第二部长片电影作品。电影故事 以中日战争末期的东北农村为背景，讲述了战争时期，乾四爷一家的命运 轨迹。影片汇集了颜丙燕、高强、刘頔、张志勇等优秀演员。他们与邢健 导演一起挑战独特的艺术风格，将现实主义与浪漫主义大胆结合，以独特 的视角展现战争中生命的力量。