Lifetimes
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- Movie: Lifetimes / To Live
- Chinese: Huozhe / 活着
- Director: Yimou Zhang
- Writer: Wei Lu, Hua Yu
- Producer:
- Cinematographer
- Release Date: May 18, 1994
- Runtime: 125min.
- Language: Mandarin
- Country: China
Plot
To Live shows us a strong woman who can and does struggle to make as good a life as she can for herself and her children, with or without the help of her husband. During the 1940s her young husband is addicted to gambling and the high life and proceeds to gamble away the family fortune and even the house they live in until he reduces the whole family to a destitute condition and himself to a homeless street peddler. Finally cured of his gambling addiction, the man to whom he lost his house gives him the means of earning a living: a set of ancient Chinese shadow puppets around which he builds a troupe of puppeteers and musicians and goes off to entertain the Nationalist army but ends up as luck would have it doing the same thing for the Red army and earning a certificate to prove he fought for the Revolution, which serves to protect him and his family when the purges begin to come.
Cast
- You Ge - Xu Fugui
- Li Gong - Xu Jiazhen
- Ben Niu - Town Chief
- Xiao Cong
- Deng Fei - Xu Youqing
- Tao Guo - Chunsheng
- Wu Jiang - Wan Erxi
- Zhang Lu
- Dahong Ni - Long'er
- Yan Su
- Liu Tianchi - Xu Fengxia, as an adult
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