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Breaking the Silence
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7.0Gong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her hearing-impaired child Zheng Da (Gao Xin) after her taxi driver husband divorces her. After Zheng Da gets his hearing aid smashed in a fight with classmates, Sun Liying sets out to raise 5,000 yuan (a small fortune) to buy him a replacement. A friend helps her set up an unauthorized bookstall, which soon gets raided by the police. Later she splits her time delivering newspapers and cleaning house for a rich businessman. This film was screened at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival.
Cast
- Gong Li as Sun Liying
- Lü Liping
- Lei Kesheng
- Shi Jingming
- Gao Xin
- Yue Xiuqing
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- China
- Original language
- Mandarin
- Director
- Sun Zhou
- Screenwriter
- Emperor Wen of Han
- Cast member
- Gong Li
- Composer
- Zhao Jiping
- Cinematographer
- Lü Yue
- Narrative location
- Beijing
- Duration
- 90
- FilmAffinity ID
- 992646
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 2000-01-01
- after a work by
- Emperor Wen of Han
- distributed by
- Netflix
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