Blind Mountain China
2007, 102min.
Prod./Script/ Dir.: Yang Li, Dir. of Phot.: Jong Lin, Prod. Design: Yang Shu, Sound: Xu Dong, Edit.: Stephen Mary, Yang Li
Cast: Yunle He, Lu Huang, Yinggao Jia, Youan Yang, Yuling Zhang, Youping Zhang
Young student Bai Xuemei is cheated and sold as a “wife” by human traffickers to a remote village. Raped and beaten, she leads the life of a sex slave and child-bearer with no hope of escape because of the villagers’ apathy and selfishness. When help finally arrives, it is only the beginning of another tragedy…
Awards
Grand Prix (Bratislava International Film Festival, 2007), Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention (Bratislava International Film Festival, 2007), Cinema Novo Prize – Special Mention (Cinema Novo Festival, 2007).
Production Company
Tang Splendour Films Limited
| Li, Yang Yang Li (born 1959, China)
Li Yang was born in Xian, China in 1959. He came from a family of actors and grew up in a threater complex. After leaving high school he went to work as an actor at the China Youth Arts Theater in Beijing from 1978 to 1985. Li then studied film directing at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute from 1985 to 1987. He left China to study German Literature between 1988 and 1990 at the Free University of Berlin, and Dramatic Theory at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich from 1990 to 1992. During this time Li also worked as an actor for German TV. After graduating he went on to study Film Directing at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne from 1992 to 1995. While at the Academy he wrote and directed several documentaries. In 2003 he wrote, directed and produced his first feature Blind Shaft, which was shot entirely in China. The film won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Filmography
Women’s Kingdom (1991), Happy Swan Song (1994), The Wake (1996), Blind Shaft (2003), Blind Mountain (2007).
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