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西干道

A story about two brothers and a young woman in the middle of the cultural revolution in northern China of the 70s. It is 1978, and the arrival in a small Northern Chinese town of a pretty young music student, Yu Xueyan, from Beijing rouses a pair of brothers from their aimlessness. Eighteen-year-old Li Siping, prefers listening to music and spying on female factory workers to thinking about his future, while his 11-year-old brother Fangtou is a cause of anxiety to their parents. When Xueyan moves into the house across the road from their family, Siping's yearning for her is stirred. Prior to this, his only distraction was secretly receiving radio signals from foreign countries in an old warehouse around the Western Trunk Line. The two of them start a romance, which has to be put on hold when Siping is drafted into the army. He returns to find that the relationship and other circumstances have changed in unpredictable ways

DVD Video, Chinese, [2007]
[publisher not identified], [China], [2007]