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Pretty Big Feet (2002)

Pretty Big Feet poster
Original title
美丽的大脚
Directed by
Yang Yazhou
Genre
drama film
Country
People's Republic of China
Runtime
1h 43m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teacher in a poor town in Ningxia works with a volunteer from Beijing to improve local education. They face the harsh realities of the region together.

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What happens

Pretty Big Feet, released in the United States as For the Children, is a 2002 Chinese film directed by Yang Yazhou. It stars Ni Ping as a teacher in an extremely impoverished and barren town in Ningxia, and Yuan Quan as a volunteer teacher coming from Beijing to help the local education. The film won 4 awards at the Golden Rooster Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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