Red Cherry

Red Cherry , fanti , pinyin Hng yng to is a 1995 film directed by Ye Ying also known as Daying Ye. The Director of Photography was Zhang Li, a fifth generation filmmaker and classmate of Chen Kaige. Red Cherry won Best Picture at the 1996 Golden Rooster Awards.

The film begins in the early summer of 1941, at the Ivanov International School in Moscow. Luo Xiaoman and Chuchu were two new students who had come to Russia after the brutal White Terror in China killed their parents as Chuchu described in front of her class how her father, a communist revolutionary, being executed in front of her by the Kuomintang. Chuchu and Luo quickly learned to fit in with the other international students and they also learned to speak Russian fluently.When summer came, several students, including Chuchu, left for the summer camp in Belarus accompanied by their teacher, Miss Vera. Xiaoman remained behind in Moscow. During this time the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union. Moscow was left unoccupied after the invasion, and Xiaoman was soon left to survive on his own in a land that he knew little of. For a time he was a homeless child begging and stealing on the streets, forced to sell blood so he could get money for food only to be robbed by others later. He eventually found a job delivering condolence letters to families of fallen soldiers. At one apartment, he found an orphaned girl whose mother died silently due to starvation and illness and took her in as though she was his own daughter. ........

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