White Deer Plain hunted down

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Sales News

Hong Kong-based Distribution Workshop Ltd 發行工作室有限公司 has picked up international sales duties on White Deer Plain 白鹿原, the epic Chinese family drama that was the last film added to the main competition section of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.

The film is the adaptation of a 1993 novel by author CHEN Zhongshi 陳忠實 that is considered a classic of modern Chinese literature.

The story is set one hundred years ago, after the Xinhai Revolution. During the period of social upheaval, two important families in White Deer Village in Shaanxi province war over land ownership, with a woman caught between them.

It is directed by WANG Quanan 王全安, the Mainland Chinese director of Tuya's Marriage 圖雅的婚事 (2006), winner of a Golden Bear at Berlin. Two years ago his relationship drama Apart Together opened the festival.

The film was produced by Xi'an Film Studio 西安電影製片廠 and will be released in China by Bona Film Group Ltd 博納影業集團有限公司, the private sector film conglomerate, which owns a 51% stake in Distribution Workshop.

The cast includes ZHANG Fengyi 張豐毅 (Red Cliff 赤壁 (2008)), WU Gang 吳剛 (Trouble Makers 光榮的憤怒 (2005)), LIU Wei 劉威 (Snow in the Wind 雪花那個飄 (2005)), DUAN Yihong 段奕宏 (Hot Summer Days 全城熱戀 (2010)), GUO Tao 郭濤 (Crazy Stone 瘋狂的石頭 (2006)), CHENG Taishen 成泰燊 (In Love We Trust 左右 (2007)) and Kitty ZHANG 張雨綺 (CJ7 長江７號 (2008)).

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