To Live

Drama

Gong Li	Xu Jiazhen
Niu Ben
Deng Fei	Xu Youqing
Ge You	Xu Fugui
Guo Tao
Li Gong	Xu Jiazhen
You Ge	Xu Fugui
Tao Guo	Chunsheng
Wu Jiang	Wan Erxi
Dahong Ni	Long'er

Director	Zhang Yimou; <b>Zhang Yimou</b>; Yimou Zhang
Producer	Chiu Fu-Sheng; Funhong Kow; Christophe Tseng
Writer	Lu Wei; Yo Hua; Wei Lu; Hua Yu

"Spellbinding... A Masterpiece!" - New York

If To Live's title, as Roger Ebert says, "conceals a universe," then watching this engrossing, exhilarating and extravagant film surely reveals one. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Best Actor awards, at the Cannes Film Festival, this epic film from China's most renowned director, Zhang Yimou (Oscar-nominee for Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), unveils a world worthy of "a Chinese Gone With the Wind" (The New York Observer)!

Set against four decades of Chinese political turmoil, To Live follows the lives of one couple, Fugui and Jiazhen (Ge You and Gong Li), as they struggle to survive their own changing station within the upheaval. As the years go by, bringing bizarre twists, tragic losses... and profound hope, Fugui and his family persevere, striving to reach a calm within the storm so they can do the one thing they've always wanted: To Live.