Ermo
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Zhou Xiaowen
Liu Peiqui
Ge Zhijun
Zhang Haiyan
Zhang Daqian
Zhong Furong
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Ermo is a hard-working peasant. The sole breadwinner of her family, she rises daily at dawn to undertake the exhausting task of making dough for the twisted noodles she later hawks in the village market. Ermo admires her next door neighbor, "Blindman", for his industriousness. His wife, "Fat Woman," is the proud possessor of the only television set in the village. She and Ermo have been feuding for years: Ermo envies Fat Woman's easy life, diligent husband, and TV; Fat Woman is jealous that Ermo has a son. Backyard battles and village politics get stirred up when Fat Woman throws dirty water on the noodles drying in Ermo's yard; Ermo poisons Fat Woman's pig. Thus precipitates Ermo's crusade to better her life through the purchase of "the biggest TV." She begins to hoard her earnings and tenaciously gathers more cash by working in the kitchen of a swanky town restaurant and selling her blood to a city hospital.
Director
Zhou Xiaowen
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Special Jury Prize and the International Film Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) at the 1994 Locarno International Film Festival.
Released in United States Spring May 12, 1995
Released in United States on Video February 11, 1997
Released in United States 1994
Released in United States August 1994
Released in United States October 1994
Released in United States 1995
Released in United States January 1995
Released in United States February 1995
Released in United States October 1996
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September 30 - October 16, 1994.
Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (in competition) August 4-14, 1994.
Shown at Chicago International Film Festival October 6-23, 1994.
Shown at Cleveland International Film Festival March 30 - April 9, 1995.
Shown at Los Angeles (UCLA) Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival May 26 - June 4, 1995.
Shown at Portland International Film Festival February 17 - March 5, 1995.
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (market) February 9-20, 1995.
Released in United States Spring May 12, 1995
Released in United States on Video February 11, 1997
Released in United States 1994 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival September 30 - October 16, 1994.)
Released in United States August 1994 (Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (in competition) August 4-14, 1994.)
Released in United States October 1994 (Shown at Chicago International Film Festival October 6-23, 1994.)
Released in United States 1995 (Shown at Cleveland International Film Festival March 30 - April 9, 1995.)
Released in United States 1995 (Shown at Los Angeles (UCLA) Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival May 26 - June 4, 1995.)
Released in United States 1995 (Shown at Portland International Film Festival February 17 - March 5, 1995.)
Released in United States January 1995 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (New Asian Cinema) in Park City, Utah January 19-29, 1995.)
Released in United States February 1995 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (market) February 9-20, 1995.)
Released in United States October 1996 (Shown at AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival (Asia) October 18-31, 1996.)
