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Blind Mountain (2007)

Blind Mountain poster
Original title
盲山
Directed by
Li Yang
Genre
drama film
Country
People's Republic of China
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 78 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young woman is tricked and sold into marriage in a remote Chinese village. She struggles to escape while facing hostility from the villagers who bought her.

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What happens

Blind Mountain (Chinese: 盲山; pinyin: Máng shān) is a 2007 Chinese film directed by Li Yang. (It is Li's first feature film since his 2003 debut Blind Shaft.) It is also known as Road Home. Like Li's previous film, Blind Shaft, which dealt with the notoriously dangerous mining industry, Blind Mountain turns a sharply critical eye towards the issue of women being sold for marriage in China. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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