Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
A tailor-made love story.
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
- Year: 2002
- Country: China, France
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Les Films de la Suane, Le Film
- Keyword: china, love of one's life, balzac, 1970s, violin, mountain village, cultural revolution, dressmaker, based on memoir or autobiography, sichuan
- Director: Dai Sijie
- Cast: Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Ye Liu, Wang Shuangbao, Cong Zhijun, Wang Hongwei