Aftershock = Tangshan dadizhen

Author

Xiaogang Feng

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Languages

In Mandarin, with English or Chinese subtitles.

Performers

Xu Fan, Zhang Jingchu, Li Chen.

Publication Information

[New York] : Distributed by New Video, [2011]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Tanghan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twins are buried under the rubble of the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century. The rescue team explains to their mother that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son. Through left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives, unbeknownst to her brother and mother. Over the next 32 years, they build lives forever shadowed by the traumatic experience of the earthquake and eventually face each other--and the decisions of the past.

Notes

Title from container.

Adapted from the novel "Aftershock" by Zhang Ling.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010.