Old Well
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Wu Tianming
Zhang Yimou
Liang Yujin
Xie Yan
Lu Liping
Chen Dali
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A village with 127 wells but no lasting water supply is transformed when an educated youth who has returned to his village sacrifices his true love, takes a rich widow as his wife and uses the dowry to build a great well.
Director
Wu Tianming
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
subtitled English
Zhang Yimou was one of the film's two cinematographer's as well as its star.
Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (International Cinema - Asia and Africa) April 14-28, 1988.
Shown at London Film Festival November 1987.
Shown at Munich Film Festival June 25 - July 3, 1988.
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival March 17, 18 & 22, 1988.
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (The Films of Zhang Yimou) in Park City, Utah January 16-26, 1992.
Shown at Tokyo International Film Festival September 26, 1987.
color
dialogue Mandarin
