The Herdsman

Name: The Herdsman
Director: Xie Jin
Released: 1982
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Shimao Zhu, Shan Cong, Qiong Liu, Ben Niu, Zhongqian Lei

1982 · 103 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 381 VOTES · DIR. Xie Jin

Overview

In 1980, Xu Jingshan, a wealthy Chinese-American businessman returns to China to find his son, Xu Lingjun, whom he had abandoned over 30 years earlier. Labeled a rightist because of his capitalist father, Lingjun has been forced to live as a humble herdsman on the grasslands. His bitter life has been transformed by a happy marriage to the wise and beautiful Xiuzhi, and more recently by his rehabilitation by the Party. When he goes to Beijing for their reunion, he discovers his father wants him to work for his chemical company in San Francisco. Lingjun tells the story of his life to his father, as he ponders his future.

Dialogue Timeline — 797 lines

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00:27:21 Because I had no home to go back to, they let me stay at the rangeland to work.

00:28:57 Even Li Long zheng (an emperor of the Ming Dynasty) used to be a monk.

00:32:37 Lao Wang, as the saying goes, March is the worse time for the cattle.

00:34:29 Believe in the masses, trust the Party.

00:37:16 Whether there is feeling between you and your wife, you have to carry out the contract to the end.

00:41:15 She wrote to tell me to come here.

00:43:11 Ah

00:45:13 I've got the certificate.

00:49:54 There is violence everyday. Nobody works the land.

00:56:40 Put on your clothes.

00:59:41 Lingiun.

01:01:01 Come. Sit by me.

01:04:26 Why did you make so many adobes

01:07:29 Sigh, even a horse will miss its home. But the man doesn't.

01:11:49 Yes.Yes.

01:14:18 I don't know how to tell you clearly.

01:16:37 Hey, what are you doing there

01:19:44 It was such an agony that my neck ached.

01:21:33 Anyway, I don't think he has ever opposed the Party and Socialism.

01:24:09 Good-for nothing.

01:28:14 I am writing to Xiuzhi.

01:30:55 It looks like that you are a firm socialist.

01:34:36 Father, look.

500:05:00 Go and get it from the Finance Department.

Cast & Characters

Shimao Zhu Xu Lingjun Shan Cong Li Xiuzhi Qiong Liu Xu Lingjun's father Ben Niu Guo Zuizi Zhongqian Lei Dong Kuan Mengshi Qi Xie Wenqing Xiaoyi Chen Song Jiaoying Ziyue Zhao Xiang Fushun Chao Fang Qing Qing Miaozhen Zhang Shen Shuzhen

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed797

Dialogue density7.7 lines / min

First line00:27:21

Final line500:05:00

Production Record

DirectorXie Jin

LanguageChinese

IMDb votes381