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Director
  
Cai Shangjun

Writer
  
Gu Xiaobai
,
Feng Rui

Language
  
Mandarin

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Duration
  

Country
  
China

The Red Awn movie poster

Release date
  
October 6, 2007 (2007-10-06) (Pusan)

The Red Awn (simplified Chinese: 红色康拜因; traditional Chinese: 紅色康拜因; pinyin: Hóngsè kāngbàiyīn; literally: "The Red Combine") is a 2007 Chinese film directed Cai Shangjun. The film premiered at the 2007 Pusan International Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. The film tells the story of a father and son in China's interior Gansu province. It also won the Golden Alexander, the top award at the International Thessaloniki Film Festival.

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Cast

  • Yao Anlian as Song, a man who returns to his hometown after five years only to discover that his family has declared him dead.
  • Lu Yulai as Yongtao, Song's 17-year-old son.
  • Shi Junhui as Yongshan, Song's friend and the owner of the titular (in the original Chinese) red combine harvester.
  • Huang Lu

    • Reception

    The Red Awn found success on the international film festival circuit early on. Besides winning the FIPRESCI Prize at Pusan, The Red Awn also was an official selection of the 2007 International Thessaloniki Film Festival where it premiered on November 24, 2007. It went on to win the Golden Alexander, the Festival's top prize along with a €37,000 monetary award.

    On November 11, 2008, the film won the Jury Grand Prize in the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

    Awards and nominations

  • 2007 International Thessaloniki Film Festival
  • Golden Alexander
  • 2007 Pusan International Film Festival
  • FIPRESCI Prize
  • 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards
  • Jury Grand Prize (shared with The Prisoner)

    • References

    The Red Awn Wikipedia
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    The Red Awn IMDb The Red Awn themoviedb.org


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