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Early Spring

Original title: Zao chun er yue
  • 1963
  • 2h
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
193
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Early Spring (1963)
Drama

Jianqiu is a high school teacher and sympathizes Mrs. Wen, a widow whose husband was Jianqiu's schoolmate and died in the Guangzhou Uprising. Jianqiu and Lan fall in love, but Jianqiu decide... Read allJianqiu is a high school teacher and sympathizes Mrs. Wen, a widow whose husband was Jianqiu's schoolmate and died in the Guangzhou Uprising. Jianqiu and Lan fall in love, but Jianqiu decides to marry Mrs. Wen.Jianqiu is a high school teacher and sympathizes Mrs. Wen, a widow whose husband was Jianqiu's schoolmate and died in the Guangzhou Uprising. Jianqiu and Lan fall in love, but Jianqiu decides to marry Mrs. Wen.

  • Director
    • Tieli Xie
  • Writers
    • Roushi
    • Tieli Xie
  • Stars
    • Daolin Sun
    • Fang Xie
    • Yunzhu Shangguan
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    193
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Tieli Xie
    • Writers
      • Roushi
      • Tieli Xie
    • Stars
      • Daolin Sun
      • Fang Xie
      • Yunzhu Shangguan
    • 2User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Daolin Sun
    • Xiao Jianqiu
    Fang Xie
    Fang Xie
    • Tao Lan
    Yunzhu Shangguan
    • Mrs. Wen
    Xuepeng Fan
    • The Taos' mother
    Bo Gao
    • Tao Mukan
    Yan Han
    • The doctor
    Suying Huang
    Suying Huang
    • Granny Chen
    Ming Lei
    • Young man outside the counter
    Tang Li
    Zhao Liu
    • Kui Mou
    Jia Ma
    • Cai Lian
    Pei Wang
    • Qian Zhengxing
    Ping Yu
    • Fang Ping
    Jun Zhang
    • Wang Fu-Sheng
    Senguan Zhou
    • A Rong
    • Director
      • Tieli Xie
    • Writers
      • Roushi
      • Tieli Xie
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    10zzmale

    Contemporary criticism of an era half a decade earlier

    Idealistic youth fed up with the injustice of the society and tries to find a land of purity in remote rural region, but the dream was ruthlessly crashed for that it was discovered that even somewhere as remote as distant village, the escape of social injustice is impossible.

    The story is told in the form of love triangle of two men and a woman, and outside the love triangle, a young widow.
    10molloy10000

    Rarely is the montage of sound and images so beautiful

    What harmony in some of the sequences between the musical accompaniment and the images! It is Romanticism of the highest order.

    The hero paces the landscape with a formidable energy, a rhythmic personage of increasing and decreasing size, powered forward by the germinal forces of the Earth. The trees and the flowers breathe through him, and his sadness is discharged with a rainfall.

    He is founding a new social order. The young pupils are prompted to think for themselves, and Lan(whom the hero loves), to oppose her spirit to the written volumes (in a Protestant fashion).

    Playing the piano propels the hero (and the heroine) along a line of sonorous abolition. The torments of class injustice, and of all the hard realities come to crumble in flow of quanta where sound governs universes of synesthesia.

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      Sergey Urusevsky's camera work on Mikhail Kalatozov's "The Cranes Are Flying" (USSR, 1957) was a major influence on the cinematography.

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    • Release date
      • July 1, 1963 (China)
    • Country of origin
      • China
    • Language
      • Mandarin
    • Also known as
      • Early Spring in February
    • Production company
      • Beijing Film Studio
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    • Runtime
      2 hours
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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