3. Red Sorghum (1987)

Based on the novel Red Sorghum Clan written by the Nobel laureate Mo Yan, the film is about the story of a young woman who works in a distillery in a rural village of Shandong province. The story is set in the second Sino-Japanese war. The female protagonist, who struggles her whole life to operate the family business of brewing sorghum liquor, gets killed in the battle with the Japanese army, along with the workers in the distillery.

The film, the directional debut of the internationally renowned film director Zhang Yimou, won the Golden Bear Award at the 38th Berlin Film Festival in 1988.

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