Blind Mountain

Blind Mountain (2007)

盲山

Young student Bai Xuemei is cheated and sold as a wife by human traffickers to a remote village. Raped and beaten, she leads the life of a sex slave and child-bearer with no hope of escape because of the villagers apathy and selfishness.

Date of release
2007-05-19
TMDB
7.6 / 10 (80)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Drama, Crime
Director
Li Yang
Collection
"Blind" Trilogy

Casting

Interesting facts

Blind Mountain is a 2007 Chinese film directed by Li Yang. It was Li's first feature film since his 2003 debut Blind Shaft. The film is also known as Road Home.

Production history

The film was primarily funded by private, overseas Chinese donors. The cast was primarily non-professional actors with the notable exception of the lead, Huang Lu, who was cast from the Beijing Film Academy before she had even graduated.

Before its release, Blind Mountain suffered from nearly 20 state-imposed cuts. This was done for the film to be allowed into the Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes by Chinese officials, as several of the cuts were of scenes that were critical of certain aspects of Chinese society.

The actor who acted as the abducted woman Zheng Xiaolan in the film was actually cajoled into that village from a county in Sichuan. Li Yang said: "We only found out when we were filming... She came to the production team every day, and we let her act later.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended