880-01 Yan shen = Wooden man's bride / Long xiang guo ji gu fen you xian gong si ; Xian dian ying zhi pian chang ; Bian ju, Yang Zhengguang ; Dao yan, Huang, Jianxin.
Zhang Shi, Wang Lan. A foreign film (China). Originally produced as a motion picture in 1993. Based on a novel by Jia Pingwa.
Summary:
Love story set in the 1920's in China's remote northwestern desert, When her bridegroom is killed, the bride is forced by tradition to marry a wooden effigy of the dead man. She secretly begins a forbidden, passionate affair with a young man who has been hired to transport to her arranged marriage.
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