To Live (1994)
To Live (1994)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Ge You
Xu Fugui
Gong Li
Xu Jiazhen
Niu Ben
Town Chief
Guo Tao
Chunsheng
Jiang Wu
Wan Erxi
Ni Dahong
Long'er
Liu Tianchi
Xu Fengxia
Zhang Lu
Young Fengxia
Zongluo Huang
Fu Gui's Dad
Dong Fei
Xu Youqing
Huang Zongluo
Fugui's Dad
Liu Yanjin
Fugui's Mom
Li Lianyi
Sgt. Lao Quan
Su Yan
Obstetric Nurse
Zhao Yu-Xiu
Physician Wang
Xiao Jie
Young Fengxia
Zhang Kang
Mantou
Lu Wei
Screenplay
Yu Hua
Novel / Screenplay
Zhang Yimou
Director
Lü Yue
Director of Photography
Tôru Adachi
Visual Effects Supervisor
Christophe Tseng
Producer
Funhong Kow
Producer
Chiu Fu-Sheng
Producer
Tomeno Geya
Sound Editor
Koshiro Jinbo
Sound Mixer
Yoshihiro Nakayama
Sound Mixer
Shin'ichi Itô
Sound Mixer
Du Yuan
Editor
Cao Juiping
Art Direction
Zheng Quanbao
Assistant Director
Zhang Xiaochun
Assistant Director
Bin Wang
Assistant Director
Meng Weibing
Additional Camera
Zhao Jiping
Original Music Composer
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 18, 1994
Original Name活着
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 13m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
To Live, also titled Lifetimes in some English versions, is a 1994 Chinese drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and written by Lu Wei, based on the novel of the same name by Yu Hua. It was produced by the Shanghai Film Studio and ERA International, starring Ge You and Gong Li, in her seventh collaboration with director Zhang Yimou.
The film looks back on four generations of the Xu family: Xu Fugui, played by Ge You; his father, a wealthy landowner; his wife, Jiazhen, played by Gong Li; their daughter, Fengxia, and son, Youqing; and finally their grandson, Little Bun. The action goes from the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. The film, like many examples of fiction and film in the 1970s and 1980s, demonstrates the difficulties of the common Chinese, but ends when conditions are seemingly improving in the 1980s.
To Live was screened at the 1994 New York Film Festival before eventually receiving a limited release in the United States on November 18, 1994. The film has been used in the United States as a support to teach Chinese history in high schools and colleges.
Having achieved international success with his previous films (Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), director Zhang Yimou's To Live came with high expectations, and lived up to it, receiving critical acclaim. It is the first Chinese film that had its foreign distribution rights pre-sold. Furthermore, To Live brought home the Grand Prix, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and Best Actor Award (Ge You) from the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, the highest major international awards Zhang Yimou has ever won.
The film was denied a theatrical release in mainland China by the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television due to its critical portrayal of policies and campaigns.