Seventeen Years
a ZHANG YUAN picture
Synopsis
A modest family is destined for tragedy due to the tense rivalry between two teenage stepsisters. In a fit of rage, Tao Lan kills her stepsister. Seventeen years later, she is released from prison for a brief holiday. A female guard escorts the solitary Tao Lan, now a stranger to life outside prison. Late in the evening, the two women arrive at the new home of Tao Lan’s aged parents to face the fragile emotional exchanges of a painful family reunion…
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"Beautifully played."
VARIETY
"A solid art movie: sensitive, understated, psychologically acute and quietly emotive."
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Festivals
& Awards
Venice Film Festival
Silver Lion For Best Director
Children and Cinema Award
OCIC Special Award
Toronto International Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Gijón International Film Festival
Best Director
Rotterdam IFF
Unesco Special Prize For Culture And Peace
Singapore International Film Festival
Silver Screen Award for Best Actress & Best Director
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
Mar del Plata Film Festival
Fajr Film Festival
Best Screenplay
Golden Phoenix Awards, China
Golden Phoenix Award - Female Actor in a Motion Picture
Shanghai Film Critics Awards
Best New Director
Jakarta International Film Festival
Busan Film Festival
Cast & Crew
| Liu Lin | |
|---|---|
| Li Bingbing | |
| Le Yeping | |
| Liang Song | |
| Li Yun | |
| Wang Su |
| Director | Zhang Yuan |
|---|---|
| Screenplay | Yu Hua, Ning Dai, Zhu Wen |
| Producer | Zhang Yuan |
| Executive Producers | Jimmy Tan, Hou Shengjun |
| Cinematography | Zhang Xigui |
| Production Design | Zhao Xiaoyu |
| Editors | Jacopo Quadri, Zhang Yuan |
| Sound | Shen Jianqin |
| Music | Zhao Jiping |
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