Film
Husband and Wife
1951 · 1h 35m
- IMDb
- 5.9
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Overview
An absorbing example of genre filmmaking in the People’s Republic of China, Husband and Wife could at first glance be mistaken for any other romantic melodrama chronicling the rise and decline of a married couple’s love; here, though, that love takes place in (and is entirely defined by) a realm of political upheaval and Maoist ideology. A Shanghai intellectual marries an illiterate peasant woman–turned–collectivist hero, with outcomes both universal (differences emerge) and specific (revolutionary self-critiques). At first a popular hit, the film (and Zheng himself) was soon critically attacked for counterrevolutionary, pro-bourgeois thought. Zheng even penned a confessional autocritique, but the damage to his career was done. (BAMPFA)
Cast
Zhao Dan
Li Ke
Jiang Tianliu
Zhang Ying
Wang Guiling
Xiao Juan's Father
Wen Ming
Zhang Ying's Mother
Wu Yinyan
Qing Feng (as Wu Yin)
Crew
- Zheng Jun-liScreenplay · Director
Details
- Release date
- March 2, 1951
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
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