China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
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The people behind it
Zhao Tao
Yin Ruijuan
Wang Hongwei
Cui Minliang
Liang Jingdong
Chang Jun
Yang Lina
Zhong Pin
Han Sanming
Sanming
Wang Bo
Yao Eryong
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Based on Zhu Dao-Nan's memoir "In the Flood of the Great Revolution", the film reproduces the historical picture of the changing circumstances of China before and after the Great Revolution through the pursuit, struggle and differentiation of young intellectuals such as Jin Gong-Shou, Gu Da-Ming, and Yang Ru-Kuan in the revolutionary tide.
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