The Ditch

The Ditch

112 mins | Drama | April 15, 2011

The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh life of these men, who coped with physical exhaustion, extreme cold, starvation and death on a daily basis.

The Ditch

112 mins | Drama | April 15, 2011

The Ditch
The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh life of these men, who coped with physical exhaustion, extreme cold, starvation and death on a daily basis.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Wild Bunch, Entre Chien et Loup, CineMart, Les Films de L'Etranger, Wil Productions, Pusan Promotion Plan
Original title 夹边沟
Directors Wang Bing
Writers Yang Xianhui, Wang Bing

Cast

Ye Lu

as Xiao Li

Cenzi Xu

as Gu

Haoyu Yang

as Lao Dong

Zi Feng

as

Lei He

as