Seventeen Years (film)
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| Traditional | 過年回家 |
| Simplified | 过年回家 |
| Mandarin | guò nián huí jiā |
| Directed by | Zhang Yuan |
| Produced by | Zhang Yuan Willy Tsao Zhang Peimin |
| Written by |
Ning Dai Yu Hua Zhu Wen |
| Starring |
Li Jun Li Bingbing Liu Lin |
| Music by | Zhao Jiping |
| Cinematography | Zhang Xigui |
| Edited by |
Jacopo Quadri Zhang Yuan |
| Distributed by | Celluloid Dreams |
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90 minutes |
| Country | China |
| Language | Mandarin |
Seventeen Years (simplified Chinese: 过年回家; traditional Chinese: 過年回家; pinyin: guò nián huí jiā; literally: "New Year Homecoming") is a 1999 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yuan and starring Li Bingbing in her feature film debut. Seventeen Years was screened at several international film festivals where it garnered numerous accolades, including the Director's Award at the 56th Venice Film Festival.
The film is co-produced by Keetman Limited (China) and Fabrica (Italy), as presented by Keetman and the Xi'an Film Studio. It premiered concurrently with Zhang Yuan's documentary feature, Crazy English in the 1999 Locarno International Film Festival.
Seventeen Years is seen, at least by some critics, as Zhang Yuan's move away from his "Bad Boy" image, an image that was cultivated after run-ins with Chinese authorities with his previous films, Beijing Bastards, and the homosexual-themed East Palace, West Palace. In contrast, Seventeen Years (and Crazy English) was produced under the aegis of the Chinese bureaucracy, though some editing of the film was required before it could be released.
The film takes place in and around the city of Tianjin, in northeastern China. Two divorced singles (Liang Song and Le Yeping), marry, each bringing a daughter into their new home. Xiaolan (Li Jun), short haired is fiercely independent and wishes to work in a factory after she graduates from high school. Her stepsister, Xiaoqin (Liu Lin), is more intellectual, and wishes to enter a university. After a dispute over a mere 5 yuan that Xiaoqin accuses Xiaolan of stealing, Xiaolan hits her stepsister over the head. To the surprise of everyone, Xiaoqin succumbs to the injury and dies and Xiaolan is led to jail.
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