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CHINA · 2009

Cow

Guan Hu
survival rural life human-animal bond winter hardship moral responsibility
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Synopsis

A Chinese peasant is given the responsibility of protecting his village's special dairy cow during a particularly harsh winter in 1940.

Year2009
CountryChina
DirectorGuan Hu
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