Ein blutroter Morgen - Xuese qing chen

The young teacher Li Mingguang is to be murdered in the north of China because of having taken the virginity from the young girl Li Pingwa. The whole family wants to take revenge on him for that, even the whole village.
Critical of society, the film is about the backgrounds origin of the deed. This is shown through the inquiries on the part of the prosecution, the conversations between the villagers and the social structures of the place.

Festivals & awards

Grosser Preis am Festival von Nantes 1992
Grosser Preis in Fribourg, 1993.