Movie
Narrow Street
New year's Sacrifice
Nie Er
Night Rain
Narrow Street (Xiaojie, C-1982, VC) --- Produced by the Shanghai Film Studio, this film tells a sentimental story of two young lovers separated during the "cultural revolution" (1966-1976). It examines not only the disaster the turmoil brought ordinary lives, but explores how the people's psyche was affected by the political and social chaos. The film provides three different endings on what happens to the lovers each being a fantasy itself. D: Yang Yanjin; C: Zhang Yu and Guo Kaimin; M: Shanghai.

New Year's Sacrifice ( Zhufu, C- 1956, VC ) --- A woman is considered the embodiment of bad luck when she twice becomes widow in this film adapted from a story of same title by Lu Xun, one of China's most prominent modern writers. D: Sang Hu; C: Bai Yang, Wei Heling, Li Jingbo; M: Beijing.

Nie Er ( Nie Er, C-1959, VC) --- The composer who wrote many musical scores in the 1930s, including " The March of the Volunteers, " which was selected as the national anthem after new China was founded, is documented in this film. D: Zheng Junli, Qian qianli; C: Zhao Dan, Zhang Ruifang, Wang Pei; M: Haiyan.

Night Rain (Bashan Yeyu, , C-1981, VC) --- This film is set on a Yangtaze River voyage from Sichuan to Wuhan during the "cultural revolution. " A poet, Qiu Shi, condemned as counterrevolutionary, is being taken to a prison. One of his two escorts is a middle-aged man who remains seemingly neutral till the end of the story when he helps the poet escape. The other is a Red Guard schoolgirl who is at first hostile to the poet but later comes to understand him an d, finally, also helps him escape. D: Wu Yigong and Wu Yonghang; C: Li Zhiyu, Zhang Yu, Zhong Xinghuo; M: Shanghai. 

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