Souls of the Wind (1982)

Original title

荒漠人

Directed by

Wai-Chuen Yung

Genre

drama film

Country

Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Canada

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Hong Kong archaeology professor becomes obsessed with finding ancient artifacts buried in a desert in Kazakhstan. He travels there with a female sponsor and begins a romance with her, but after an accident he is rescued by a local woman. He must choose between the two women and his career.

slow-burnmelancholicintrospectiveearthyromanticcontemplativetensevisually stark

What happens

是1982年上映的香港電影，由翁維銓執導，思維、姚煒主演。本片獲提名第2屆香港電影金像獎最佳音樂。 考古學家庄教授（思維飾）一直以來醉心於研究東漢時期竇固與匈奴打仗時被流沙淹沒的軍隊，希望發掘出當時的兵器及盔甲來考證其構造。林嘉娜（姚煒飾）是基本會的代表，邀請庄教授一同前往哈薩克的沙漠進行考古發掘。 在哈薩克的工作期間，雙方都對對方十分欣賞並慢慢產生情愫。但是之後庄教授在某次的發掘工作期間因意外而受傷，被當地的原住民古麗所救，因此庄教授陷入兩位女性的兩難局面，雙方都希望能夠把庄教授留在身邊，而唯一能令庄教授作出選擇的就是其事業…… (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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