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- BFI identifier363293
- Date1991 (Release)
- Production countryPeople's Republic of China, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, France
- Production company
- SynopsisAbout a blind boy whose dying master gives a secret cure for his blindness, but with the condition that the boy must play his 'sanxian' (three-stringed guitar) until 1,000 strings have been broken. Sixty years later, and the conditions nearly fulfilled, the blind man, now revered as a saint wanders into a village, where his boy disciple falls in love with a girl. (Synopsis)
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Title
BIAN ZOU BIAN CHANG (Original)
Die WEISSAGUNG (Alternative)
LIFE ON A STRING (Alternative)
Category
Fiction- Collections
- Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: by SHI Tiesheng - SCR-4282
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-363293
Small pressbook held.
view all - StillsPhotograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-3230373
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-3230374
Photograph: transparency - SPD-194172
Photograph: transparency - SPD-194173
Photograph: transparency - SPD-194174
view all - ArticlesSight and Sound v1 n11 March 1992 - Credits, Review, SynopsisLa Revue du Cinéma/Image et Son n476 November 1991 - Credits, ReviewCinemaya n12 Summer 1991 - Reviewview all
- BIAN ZOU BIAN CHANG
Work - 363293 - 1991 (Release)
People's Republic of China - Film - Fiction
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