RED Sorghum

(Hong gao liang)

People’s Republic of China, 1988

Director: Zhang Yimou

Production: Xi An Film Studio; color, 35mm; running time: 91 minutes. Filmed 1987; released 1988.

Producer: Li Changqing; screenplay: Chen Jianyu, Zhu Wei, Mo Yen; photography: Gu Changwei; editor: Du Yuan; art director: Yang Gang; music director: Zhao Jiping.

Cast: Gong Li (My Grandma); Jing Wen (My Grandpa); Liu Ji (Father, as child); Teng Rijun (Uncle Luohan); Ji Chunhua (Bandit); Qian Ming; Zhai Chunhua.

Awards: Golden Bear Award, Berlin Film Festival, 1988; New York Film Festival Best Film Award, 1988.

Publications

Articles:

Kauffmann, Stanley, “Red Sorghum” (review), in New Republic, 17 October 1988.

Klawans, Stuart, “Zhang Yimou: Local Hero,” in Film Comment, September-October 1995.

Ye, Tan, “From the Fifth to the Sixth Generation” (interview), in Film Quarterly, Winter 1999.