Starring:
Xin Baiqing: 辛柏青
Hu Jingfan: 胡靖釩
Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014 at 5:00 p.m.
Webber Uniplex
1689 Chateau Drive
Dunwoody, GA 30338-6047
The film is a remake of director Fei Mu's classic 1948 film, Spring in a Small Town.
Zhang Zhichen (Xin Baiqing), a city doctor, comes to visit his old friend from school Dai Liyan (Wu Jun) shortly after the war against the Japanese has ended. Dai is sickly although Zhang suspects it to be mainly a case of hypochondria. While visiting, he meets Liyan's wife, Yuwen (Hu Jingfan) and Liyan's young teenage sister Dai Xiu (Lu Sisi).
Zhang and Yuwen has had a passionate love affair ten years earlier before she had been engaged to marry her husband. Due to her husband's sickness however, the couple has ceased any real physical contact. With Zhang back, both Yuwen and the doctor find themselves again attracted to one another. As emotions run high, Dai Xiu's birthday comes up. As the drinks begin to flow, Zhang and Yuwen's mutual attraction emerge clearly to everyone, especially to Liyan.

Tian Zhuangzhuang was born on April 23, 1952 in Beijng. He was the son of Tian Fang, a famous actor in the 1930s who became head of the Beijing Film Studio after 1949, and Yu Lan, an actress who later ran the Beijing Children's Film Studio. Because of the Tians' prominence, Tian Zhuangzhuang suffered heavily during the Cultural Revolution, and both his parents were persecuted. Tian never joined the Red Guards, and was eventually sent to the countryside in Jilin, like many youths from so-called "bad families."
Tian enlisted in the People's Liberation Army in 1968 and served for three years. There he met a war photographer, who introduced him to the camera. Working as a photographer for five years, Tian eventually decided to switch to cinematography and found a job as an assistant cinematographer at the Beijing Agricultural Film Studio. In 1978, after three years at the studio, Tian applied for entrance in the Beijing Film Academy and was accepted. However, he was forced to apply to the directing department rather than the cinematography department due to his age.

Directions to the Webber Uniplex (also known as the Webber family residence) can be found here.
The usual potluck supper will precede the movie.
Please call Pat Webber at 770-396-5690 by Wednesday, October 22nd to let her know what you’ll be bringing.
For more information e-mail Sylvia Krebs