Qiu Ju is about one womans search for justice and dignity. Gong Li's character is strong and forthright, even as her journey begins to take its toll. Part of the beauty of this film is that everyone identifies with Gong Li as the female lead as she attempts to assert her human dignity as well as her family's in the face of an inhuman, uncaring, impersonal bureaucracy. The attention to detail in this movie is amazing -- the audience really gets gets a glimpse of the small realities of rural chinese life.
Awards
1992 Venice Film Festival winner of:
Golden Lion (Zhang Yimou)
Volpi Cup (Gong Li)
OCIC Award - Honorable Mention (Gong Li)
1993 winner of the National Society of Film Critics Awards for best foreign language film
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