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CHINA · 1999

Not One Less

Zhang Yimou
Chinese Fifth Generation rural education child labor poverty in China student perseverance teacher responsibility
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Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.

Year1999
CountryChina
DirectorZhang Yimou
MovementChinese Fifth Generation
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