New Year Sacrifice
6.9
In a mountain hamlet in eastern China, a poor woman faces trial after trial. Sold into marriage as a child, she is left a young widow and enslaved by her mother-in-law, who sells her to a poor peasant. Her second marriage turns out to be happy until fate takes away her husband and son. Now seen as a bearer of bad luck, she becomes a social outcast.
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Cast
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Yang Bai
Xianglin's wife
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Laoliu He
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Jingbo Li
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Shi Lin
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Xin Liang
Boss He
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Li Di
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Jian Li
Po Po
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Guan Zongxiang
Laoer Wei
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Ling Yuan
Desao A
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Li Mengyao
Shiye Wang
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Ding Weimin
Dasao Ruan
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Feng Jin
Kong Lao
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Sang Hu Director · Yan Xia Writer Lu Xun Author
First release October 19, 1956 · Produced in China · Original title 祝福
Production
Beijing Film Studio
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China
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Original title
祝福
Original language
Chinese
Spoken on screen
Chinese
Release dates
China · October 19, 1956
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
China
October 19, 2026 · Premiere · Yangtze River Delta International Youth Film Festival (4K Restoration)
Russia
May 29, 1957 · Theatrical
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