"During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels."
Zhou Xun
as Little Seamstress
Chen Kun
as Luo Min
Liu Ye
as Ma Jianling
Wang Shuangbao
as Head of the Village
Cong Zhijun
as Old Tailor
Wang Hongwei
as Four Eyes
Xiao Xiong
as Mother of Four Eyes
Zuohui Tang
as Old Mill Worker
Chen Tianyu
as Director of the Commune
Qing-yun Fan
as Doctor
Jie Min
as Peasant
Zhang Chenghe
Xu Yukun
Lia Mei
as Female Villager
Jing Fang
Li Peng
Heng Fei Zhao
Yao Liu
Yulin Chen
Chun Hua Xu
Fang Zong Zhao
Wa Su
as Head of the Village's Daughter-in-Law
Quilène Boileux
as Airport Shop Assistant
Dandan Yang
as Mrs. Lao
Guy-Pierre Bennet
as Journalist (voice)
Wei Chen
as Wife of the Head of the Village
Dai Sijie
Director
Screenplay
Novel
Nadine Perront
Production Design
Jean-Marie Dreujou
Director of Photography
Lise Fayolle
Producer
Bernard Lorain
Executive Producer
Pujian Wang
Wang Zhebin
Original Music Composer
Luc Barnier
Editor
Julia Grégory
Cao Juiping
Tong Huamiao
Costume Design