Plot | An adaptation of Mao Dun’s story, this film depicts poor silkworm farmers unwittingly caught up in competition with foreign industries during the early 1930s. In a village in Zhejiang province. The film, praised as one of the first successful leftist films, was shot in a documentary style. It also dramatizes the impact political and economic change exerts on the lives of the poor. (Encyclopedia of Chinese Film, ed.Xiao Zhiwei, Zhang Yingjin)
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