The Ditch

The Ditch (2010)

TMDb

7.2

06/09/2010 • 1h 52m
original-title

夹边沟

status

Released

production-companies

WIL Productions

Les Films de L'Etranger

Wild Bunch

Entre Chien et Loup

Pusan Promotion Plan

CineMart

original-language

Mandarin

budget

-

revenue

-

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.

director
production-countries

Belgium

France

Hong Kong

Netherlands

South Korea

spoken-languages

Mandarin

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