Qing chun ji (1985)
Directed by
Zhang Nuanxin
Writing credits
Zhang Manling (novel)
Zhang Nuanxin
Also Known As:
Sacrifice of Youth
Sacrificed Youth
Country: China
Color: Color
Runtime: 93 mins
Language: Chinese
Subs: Manual english subtitles
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089864/
Awards: Grand Prize of the Jury, 1986 Sete International Film Festival, france.
Ranked Top 1 of the ten best chinese films in 80s, 6th Hongkong Film Awards, 1987.
Sacrificed Youth is recognized one of the most important chinese film since Fei Mu's spring in a small town, and it's absolutely the most beautiful film I've seen by far. In fact, after Fei Mu, Zhang Nuanxin is the only filmmaker who inherited and developed Fei Mu's post-modern, interior monologue style poetic film language. In 1979, She and her husband, film critic Li Tuo, published "The Modernization of Film Language", which triggered a nationwide debate on how to rejuvenate Chinese Film, and this astonishing article deeply influenced a group of 5th Generation filmmakers, Zhang Yimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Li Shaohong...nearly all 5th Gerneration directors were her students in beijing film academy. Since 1981 she made her first film "Sha Ou", all her films gained very unique position in chinese cinema. 1985, her second and most accomplished film Sacrificed Youth made a huge blast in china, innovative camera-work, hallucinatory music (made by Liu Suola, one of the best experimental music composer of china.) and poetic photography made it became another eternal top-work of china poetic cinema since SIAST. In 1991, she made a splendid documentary film "Good Morning Beijing", which considered one of two premier films of China New social Documentary Film (another is Ning Ying's For Fun). 1995, she died of cancer only 55, left only 4 films.
Zhang Nuanxin is the most unique chinese director since Fei Mu, and she's also the most distinguished one in all of chinese female directors, not only from her films, but also from her elegant temperament. You can forget Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Wang Xiaoshuai...but Zhang Nuanxin is unreplaceable.
Zhang Nuanxin (1940-1995), is the precentor of china 4th Gerneration filmmakers. She graduated from the directing department of the Beijing Film Academy in 1962. She received the Special Prize for Directors at the Second Golden Rooster Awards for the film Sha Ou in 1982. Later she directed Sacrificed Youth and Good Morning, Beijing. As one of the earliest pioneers of aesthetics in records of events, she has incessantly explored aesthetics in her films. Sha Ou shows the characters' psychological activities in a fresh film language; Sacrificed youth creates a subtle, vigorous, and mild mood; and Good Morning, Beijing expresses a dormant passion through a realistic and stream-of-life style. Zhang has evolved a unique style in the creation of Chinese artistic films.
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Sacrificed Youth, directed by Zhang Nuanxin, shows a young educated woman who settles in an area of the Dai ethnic group during the Cultural Revolution. Like a prose poem, the film reveals the heroine's feelings toward the landscapes and the customs of the Dai people inhabiting the area and achieves a unique aesthetic effect.
A lyrical, elegiac tale about the generation of students banished to remote agricultural regions of China during the Cultural Revolution. 17-year-old Li Chun, a shy, even repressed Han girl from Beijing, is sent to work in a small village in the Dai countryside, down near Laos. At first disdainful of the natives' rural superstitions and poverty, only slowly does she overcome her outsider status and learn the value of the Dais' appreciation of beauty, nature and human warmth. An unsentimental celebration of tradition, exotic landscape and cultural independence, Zhang's film is both a loving portrait of Dai life and a sensitive, partly autobiographical study of one girl's hesitant awakening to sensuality. Infused with a discreet, gentle eroticism and a final, touching sense of loss, it charms through its narrative simplicity and visual elegance.
Zhang Nuanxin filmography:
1/ Sha Ou (1981)
2/ Sacrificed Youth (1985)
3/ Good Morning Beijing (1991)
4/ Yunnan Story (1994)
5/ South of China, 1937 (1995, uncompleted)
Note: Here's the first Zhang Nuanxin film appeared on mule!!! As far as I know, all of her films were never released in china by far, no dvd vhs or vcd...this version is a tvrip I luckily recorded by chance. Image and sounds quality are good enough. I did english subs for it, actually I'm not always make subs for sound film, it's too hard, but every film I subbed is definitely best of the best, spring in a small town is, Sacrificed Youth is also.
Here's a 2 mins trailer which let you know more about this film and Zhang Nuanxin, high recommended you see it before watch the whole film:
eLinks:
Qingchun Ji - Sacrificed Youth (1985, in memory of Zhang Nuanxin) CD1 RARE TVRIP ENGSRT by AUESS.avi 
Qingchun Ji - Sacrificed Youth (1985) ENG SUB FOR CD1.srt Qingchun Ji - Sacrificed Youth (1985, in memory of Zhang Nuanxin) CD2 RARE TVRIP ENGSRT by AUESS.avi Qingchun Ji - Sacrificed Youth (1985) ENG SUB FOR CD2.srt Screenshots:
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