The Ditch (movie)
夹边沟- User score: 7.2
- Production country: Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Netherlands, South Korea
- Producer: Wang Bing
- Production companies: WIL Productions, Les Films de L'Etranger
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 9/6/2010
- Run time: 112 min.
Movie description
The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh life of these men, who coped with physical exhaustion, extreme cold, starvation and death on a daily basis.
