Hu Jie Movies

  • 2002
    Folk Song on the Plain

    Folk Song on the Plain

    Folk Song on the Plain

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    A folk song echoed on the Shandong Plain. This is the song of Luo Xiaojia, a Yunnan Yi girl who was trafficked to the Shandong Plain at the age of...

    Folk Song on the Plain
  • 2003
    Little Angel

    Little Angel

    Little Angel

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    Zhou Hao's father was criticized and beaten during the Cultural Revolution. Though he was born with a congenital intellectual disability, Zhou Hao's...

    Little Angel
  • 1996
    The Woman Matchmaker

    The Woman Matchmaker

    The Woman Matchmaker

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    In order to find such a fittingly inspiring matchmaker, the director visited nearly 10 matchmakers and finally selected the matchmaker in the film....

    The Woman Matchmaker
  • 2000
    Beside the Sea

    Beside the Sea

    Beside the Sea

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    Because of difficulties where they live in the north east of China, a husband and wife go back to their hometown in Shandong Province and settle in...

    Beside the Sea
  • 1995
    Mountain Far Away

    Mountain Far Away

    Mountain Far Away

    01995HD

    This is a documentary about coal miners. In the Qilian mountains of Qinghai Province, where the altitude is over 3,600 meters and the air thin, there...

    Mountain Far Away
  • 2007
    The Circle of Life

    The Circle of Life

    The Circle of Life

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    Like most local young women, Xiaohua met Chunling, a young man from another village, through a matchmaker and chose a good day to get married. After...

    The Circle of Life
  • 2011
    My Mother Wang Pei Ying

    My Mother Wang Pei Ying

    My Mother Wang Pei Ying

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    Wang Peiying, a widow with seven children, was a worker at the Ministry of Railways. The famine precipitated by the Great Leap Forward, which killed...

    My Mother Wang Pei Ying
  • 1995
    Migration

    Migration

    Migration

    01995HD

    A group of ancient Tibetan nomads live in the Qilian Mountains in western China. Their home is a tent made of yak hair. They change their location...

    Migration
  • 2014
    Songs from Maidichong

    Songs from Maidichong

    Songs from Maidichong

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    A group of Miao minority Christians live in Maidichong, a small village in a remote mountain area in Yunnan Province. Christianity was brought to...

    Songs from Maidichong
  • 2012
    The Guy Who Arrived in Heaven

    The Guy Who Arrived in Heaven

    The Guy Who Arrived in Heaven

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    This film tells the story of the translator Wang Tiesheng. Before 1949, Wang graduated from Tongji University in Shanghai. He was a student with good...

    The Guy Who Arrived in Heaven
  • 1997
    Theater Troupe

    Theater Troupe

    Theater Troupe

    01997HD

    Folk theater is a representation of local culture in China — a reflection of its characteristics. Hu Jie filmed a mobile theater troupe's...

    Theater Troupe
  • 2017
    Liaoxi Memento Mori

    Liaoxi Memento Mori

    Liaoxi Memento Mori

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    In 1959, a group of intellectual “Rightists” from colleges and universities in Shenyang, and criminals from prisons, arrived in the...

    Liaoxi Memento Mori
  • 2004
    Electing a Village Chief

    Electing a Village Chief

    Electing a Village Chief

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    With the opening up of the economy, grassroots democracy has come. But since the land is owned by the state, the local government actually has...

    Electing a Village Chief
  • 1998
    Scrap Collectors

    Scrap Collectors

    Scrap Collectors

    01998HD

    One of Hu Jie's 'Farmers Working in the City' films. The city is developing rapidly, with tall buildings and highways. Behind this bustling city,...

    Scrap Collectors
  • 2013
    Spark

    Spark

    Spark

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    Spark was an underground publication that emerged in Gansu province in 1960, and was centered on the ongoing famine and the Great Leap Forward....

    Spark
  • 2002
    Bask in the Sunshine

    Bask in the Sunshine

    Bask in the Sunshine

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    Contemporary art has become a trend for young people in China. Young artists often organize activities in the form of art groups or small groups...

    Bask in the Sunshine
  • 1998
    Holy Light

    Holy Light

    Holy Light

    01998HD

    The melody of the hymn echoes in the old streets and alleys of the city. This is strange in a country that regards religion as a spiritual opium. The...

    Holy Light
  • 2005
    The Silent Nu River

    The Silent Nu River

    The Silent Nu River

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    In the mountains of China's Qinghai Province, there are countless small coal mines. The miners are all rural residents who live nearby, and their...

    The Silent Nu River
  • 2012
    The Anecdotes of Gelagu

    The Anecdotes of Gelagu

    The Anecdotes of Gelagu

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    This documentary records the journey of Zhang Xianchi from a communist Chinese soldier to a prisoner and a writer of independent mind, in some ways...

    The Anecdotes of Gelagu
  • 2006
    Though I Am Gone

    Though I Am Gone

    Though I Am Gone

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    Filmmaker Hu Jie uncovers the tragic story of a teacher beaten to death by her students during the Cultural Revoution. In 1966, the Cultural...

    Though I Am Gone