The Ditch

7.2 / 10

(22 votes)

The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh life of these men, who coped with physical exhaustion, extreme cold, starvation and death on a daily basis.

Country:

Belgium,

France,

Hong Kong,

Netherlands,

South Korea

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

112 minutes

Year:

2010

Director:

Wang Bing

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Company:

WIL Productions,

Les Films de L'Etranger

Cast:
Cheng Zhengwu

Niansong Jing

Xiangnian Li

Renjun Lian

Ye Lu

Xiao Li

Crew:
Kong Lihong

Producer

Wang Bing

Screenplay

Wang Bing

Director

Mao Hui

Producer

Francisco Villa-Lobos

Producer