Red Sorghum
(Hong Goaliang)

At the end of the 1920s, in a remote area of north-western China, a young woman is promised to a fifty- year-old man. But she falls in love with the bearer of her bridal chair who saves her from an attack by bandits. Before the wedding, the bridegroom suddenly vanishes. The lovers can get married. Yet their happiness is short-lived as the Japanese arrive and chase peasants…