Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

DirectorDai Sijie

A tailor-made love story.

6.8 / 10
2002
116 min
Drama

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.

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