Old Well (film)
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Music director Youfu Xu Duration Country China | 7/10 Genre Drama, Romance Screenplay Zheng Yi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Yi Zheng (screenplay) Release date 1986 Similar movies Zhang Yimou appears in Old Well and directed The Story of Qiu Ju |
Old Well (Chinese: 老井; pinyin: lǎo jǐng) is a 1986 Chinese film written by Zheng Yi about a village worker's effort of digging a well in his water-starved hometown located in northwest China and his affairs with his old girlfriend. It is produced by Xi'an Film Studio and directed by Wu Tianming, starring Zhang Yimou and Liang Yujin.

The film won the 8th Golden Rooster Award for Best Picture in 1988. The film also won the Best Feature Film award at the 1987 Tokyo International Film Festival.
The film is based on the novel of the same name, also written by Zheng Yi, first published in China. It was translated by David Kwan to English and published in 1990 by China Books & Periodicals in the United States.
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