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Early Spring
Variant Title:Zao chun er yue; Zao chun gu shi
Content:Feature Film
Available From:China Century Entertainment Inc.
Media Type:DVD
Release Date:1963, 2003
Audience:Higher Education
Running Time:110 mins.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:Mandarin with English Subtitles
Author:Xie Tieli
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology
Subheading:Social Relations
Region:East Asia
Country:China



Abstract:

Based on the novel February by Rou Shi. In 1926 a young teacher at a crossroads, comes to a town in Eastern Province to be a high school teacher. He sympathizes with a poor widow and at the same time he falls in love with the landlord's daughter. Later, the widow's son dies and in order to help her he decides to marry her. This gets the teacher reproached and attacked, the widow is overcome by shame and drowns herself. He resolutely leaves the town and plunges himself into the tide of the time; the landlord's daughter is quick to follow him. With Sun Daolin, Xie Fang, Shangguan Yunzhu, Gao Bo.




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