A Tale of Two Donkeys

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• Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
• Language(s): 普通话 (Mandarin)
• Director(s): Dawei Li
• Cast(s): Wen Zhang, Bai Jing, Yue Hong

• Duration: 1h 38min
• Award(s): Press Prize 2009 (Won)
  Jury 2010 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: I am the Secret in Your Heart, Nice View
• Story:
  An involving, beautifully modulated yarn about a young intellectual's "war" with two equines in a mountain village during the Cultural Revolution. A young student, Ma Jie, who is sent to a tiny Beigao village in Shanxi Province and has the mundane task of watching over livestock during the Great Cultural Revolution. Surrounded only by the extreme boredom, he initiates a war against two donkeys. What ensues as a result, is an impressive feature debut by director Li Dawei who manages to infuse a believable quirky and black humorous universe within a realistically grim setting.
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