The Story of Qiu Ju
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8/31/1992Runtime
100 minsOverview
When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a big city to deal with its bureaucrats and find justice.
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ChineseBudget
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$1,890,247Homepage
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A pregnant peasant woman navigates layers of bureaucracy with stubborn determination to seek accountability for her husband's humiliation, revealing how systems of power protect the privileged while exhausting the vulnerable. It's both deeply frustrating and quietly funny, a film about small resistance that exposes larger inequities.
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