A wife yearns for complete independence from a narrow, restricting life in this slow-paced, undistinguished melodrama from mainland China, set in 1944-'45, in the midst of fighting. The young woman works at a good job, nurses her terminally ill husband, cares for her small child, and puts up with a difficult mother-in-law. Her desire to chuck it all is tempered by the need to take care of her family, and as China slowly heads toward the communist takeover in 1949, the chaos of the war around her further inhibits any impulse to go it alone.
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Que Wen Director · Ba Jin Story
United States release January 1, 1985 · Produced in China · Original title Han Ye
Production
Beijing Film Studio
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China
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Original title
Han Ye
Original language
Chinese
Spoken on screen
Chinese
Release dates
China · April 1, 1984
Theatrical
United States · January 1, 1985
San Francisco International Film Festival
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