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- Movie: Lifetimes / To Live
- Chinese: Huozhe / 活着
- Director: Zhang Yimou
- 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.
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