To Live (1994)
To Live (1994)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Ge You
Xu Fugui
Gong Li
Xu Jiazhen
Ben Niu
Town Chief
Jiang Wu
Wan Erxi
Guo Tao
Chunsheng
Liu Tianchi
Young Adult Xu Fengxia
Ni Dahong
Long'er
Li Lianyi
Sgt. Lao Quan
Zhang Lu
Young Xu Fengxia
Zongluo Huang
Fu Gui's Dad
Dong Fei
Xu Youqing
Huang Zongluo
Fugui's Father
Liu Yanjin
Fugui's Mother
Yan Su
Nurse
Zhao Yuxiu
Physician Wang
Yu Hua
Novel
Lu Wei
Screenplay
Lü Yue
Director of Photography
Tomeno Geya
Sound Editor
Jiping Zhao
Composer
Chiu Fu-Sheng
Producer
Koshiro Jinbo
Sound Mixer
Christophe Tseng
Producer
Yoshihiro Nakayama
Sound Mixer
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 26, 1994
Original Name活着
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 13m
Genres
Wiki.
To Live, also titled Lifetimes in some English versions, is a 1994 Chinese drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and written by Lu Wei, based on the novel of the same name by Yu Hua. It was produced by the Shanghai Film Studio and ERA International, starring Ge You and Gong Li, in her seventh collaboration with director Zhang Yimou.
The film looks back on four generations of the Xu family: Xu Fugui, played by Ge You; his father, a wealthy landowner; his wife, Jiazhen, played by Gong Li; their daughter, Fengxia, and son, Youqing; and finally their grandson, Little Bun. The action goes from the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. The film, like many examples of fiction and film in the 1970s and 1980s, demonstrates the difficulties of the common Chinese, but ends when conditions are seemingly improving in the 1980s.To Live was screened at the 1994 New York Film Festival before eventually receiving a limited release in the United States on November 18, 1994. The film has been used in the United States as a support to teach Chinese history in high schools and colleges.Having achieved international success with his previous films (Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), director Zhang Yimou's To Live came with high expectations, and lived up to it, receiving critical acclaim. It is the first Chinese film that had its foreign distribution rights pre-sold. Furthermore, To Live brought home the Grand Prix, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and Best Actor Award (Ge You) from the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, the highest major international awards Zhang Yimou has ever won.The Film was denied a theatrical release in mainland China by the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television due to its critical portrayal of policies and campaigns.