The Eleventh Child
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Restaurant owner Tang the 11th, learning his older brother, Tang the First is ill, returns to the his remote native village, long plagued by leprosy. Superstition holds that a cure can be obtained when a family of five sons and five daughters makes possible the death of a fish from the Lake of Heaven, since the leprosy remedy is in the flesh of this fish. It just so happens that Tang the 11th has five sons, four daughters, and a pregnant wife.
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Dai Sijie Director · Nadine Perront Screenplay Jean-Marie Sénia Composer
First release November 16, 1998 · Produced in Vietnam, France, Canada · Languages French, Vietnamese
Production
La Sept Cinéma
Production
Paris New York Production
Production
Vietnam · France · Canada
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Original title
Nguol thùa
Original language
Vietnamese
Spoken on screen
French · Vietnamese
Release dates
Argentina · November 16, 1998
Mar del Plata Film Festival
France · November 24, 1998
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Hong Kong SAR China
December 18, 1999 · French Cinepanorama Film Festival
Italy
October 24, 2012 · DVD premiere
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