Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

A tailor-made love story.

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.

Drama

Zhou Xun

(Little Seamstress)

Chen Kun

(Luo Min)

Ye Liu

(Ma Jianling)

Wang Shuangbao

(Head of the Village)

Cong Zhijun

(Old Tailor)

Wang Hongwei

(Four Eyes)

Xiao Xiong

(Mother of Four Eyes)

Zuohui Tang

(Old Mill Worker)

Chen Tianyu

(Director of the Commune)

Qing-yun Fan

(Doctor)

Jie Min

(Peasant)

Zhang Chenghe

(Peasant)

Xu Yukun

(Peasant)

Lia Mei

(Female Villager)

Jing Fang

(Female Villager)

Li Peng

(Female Villager)

Heng Fei Zhao

(Female Villager)

Yao Liu

(Female Villager)

Yulin Chen

(Female Villager)

Chun Hua Xu

(Female Villager)

Fang Zong Zhao

(Female Villager)

Wa Su

(Head of the Village's Daughter-in-Law)

Quilène Boileux

(Airport Shop Assistant)

Dandan Yang

(Mrs. Lao)

Guy-Pierre Bennet

(Journalist (voice))

Wei Chen

(Wife of the Head of the Village)