Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Name: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Director: Dai Sijie
Released: 2002
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Ye Liu, Shuangbao Wang, Zhijun Cong

2002 · 116 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 4,633 VOTES · DIR. Dai Sijie

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress poster

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,337 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:24 We're the Red Guards of Chairman Mao

00:06:09 Ma plays it very well

00:12:55 What?

00:17:09 You always make trouble

00:22:19 but not only content

00:26:35 The flower seller makes a hole in the ice

00:31:04 What books?

00:34:50 lt's good. Let's sit down to see

00:38:43 Try to vomit. You'll feel better Drink some water

00:42:38 Ursule Mirouet!

00:49:47 A very exotic name

00:54:22 lt's not very comfortable

00:57:33 lt's horribly painful

01:00:54 l heard everything

01:04:36 Come on, chief! lt's too late

01:08:01 l--- love---you

01:12:55 lf your father

01:16:54 in the husband's role

01:20:29 He's a tall man

01:25:24 We have no choice. Be brave

01:29:23 l first played in Lyon and Toulouse

01:35:07 Yes, so what do you want?

01:39:46 Which bird shakes the brown grass?

01:46:46 Only each of us loved her in his own way

Cast & Characters

Xun Zhou Little Chinese Seamstress Kun Chen Luo Ye Liu Ma Shuangbao Wang Head of the Village Zhijun Cong Old Tailor Hongwei Wang Four Eyes Xiong Xiao Mother of Four Eyes Zuohui Tang Old Mill Worker Wei Chen Wife of the Head of the Village Tianlu Chen Director of the Commune

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,337

Dialogue density11.5 lines / min

First line00:01:24

Final line01:46:46

Production Record

DirectorDai Sijie

LanguageChinese

IMDb votes4,633