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THE DITCH

LE FOSSE

By Wang BING

Drama - Completed 2010

- Year of production
- 2010
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- BELGIUM, FRANCE, HONG KONG (CHINA)
- Languages
- MANDARIN
- Director(s)
- Wang BING
- Writer(s)
- Wang BING
- Cast
- Lu YE, Lian RENJUN, Xu CENZI, Yang HAOYU, Cheng ZHENGWU, Jing NIANSONG, Li XIANGHNIAN
- Producer(s)
- Sébastien DELLOYE (Entre Chien et Loup), Diana ELBAUM (Entre Chien et Loup)
- Synopsis
- At the end of the 1950s, the Chinese government condemned thousands of citizens - considered ‘right wing dissidents’ due their past activities, criticisms of the Communist Party or simply their middle-class backgrounds and families - to forced labour camps.
  Deported for re-education to the north-west of the country, in the middle of the Gobi Desert, thousands of miles from their families, they encountered conditions of absolute destitution. As a result of backbreaking physical labour, an unrelentingly extreme climate and the most meager of provisions, many of them perished.
  The Ditch recounts their fate - an unflinching account of the very extremes of the human condition.
  Based on “Goodbye, Jiabiangou”, a novel by YANG Xianhui, and on testimony by TI Zhongzheng and the other survivors.