Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Chinese — subtitles on.
The story
A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust.
- tradition
- peasant
- arranged marriage
- folk music
- folk singer
- military
- chinese communism
- drought
- communist party
- 1930s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Directed
- Chen Kaige
- Written
- Chen Kaige, Ziliang Zhang
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 61 ratings
- Studio
- Guangxi Film Studio
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
