Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
May 16, 2002 | IMDB 6.8
116 min Watch NowDrama
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
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