WINTER AFTER WINTER

WINTER AFTER WINTER (DONG QU DONG YOU LAİ), 2019
China | DCP, Black & White, 110' | Chinese
Director:Xing Jian
Cast:Yan Bingyan, Gao Qiang, Liu Di,, Hibino Alkira, Yuan Liguo

Presenting a little-known aspect of World War II, Jian Xing brings to the screen the story of a villager who is trying to save his family from extinction during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. The Japanese are about to take away Lao Si’s three sons. After forcing his eldest son to divorce his wife because he cannot have children, Lao Si wants one of his other sons to have a child with the same woman. The young men are taken by force to labor camp by the Japanese but the youngest escapes and returns home. After a while he gets his sister-in-law pregnant and things get further complicated and out of balance in the household.