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