"Not One Less" is by
Zhang Yimou
Direct,
Shi Xiangsheng
Writer,
Wei Minzhi
,
Zhang Huike
Starring in a drama film. The film premiered in Italy on September 7, 1999
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Adapted from Shi Xiangsheng's novel There Is a Sun in the Sky, the film tells the story of Wei Minzhi, a substitute school teacher in a village, who sets out on a solo quest after learning that her student Zhang Huike has dropped out of school to work in the city in order to pay off her family's debts
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On September 1, 1999, the film was released
56th Venice International Film Festival
Golden Lion Award
[30]
He was nominated the same year
China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival
Best Feature Film Award
[29]
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- Chinese name
- Not one less
- Foreign name
- Not One Less (English)
- Generic type
- Plot, countryside, education
- Production area
- Chinese mainland
- Shooting location
- Chicheng County, Zhangjiakou city, Hebei province
- Direct performance
- Zhang Yimou
- dramatize
- Shi Xiangsheng
- Main performance
- Wei Minzhi , Zhang Huike
- Film length
- 106 minutes
- Release time
- September 7, 1999 (Venice International Film Festival)
- Dialogue language
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Jin dialect
Mandarin - chroma
- Chroma
- imdb coding
- tt0209189
Shuiquan primary school high teacher to go home to visit the sick mother, only 13 years old girl Wei Minzhi was Tian village head from the neighboring village to find a month of class. Gao teacher see Wei Minzhi is too young, think she can not teach, do not want her to substitute. Village head told Gao teacher, it is not easy to find such a person, let Wei Minzhi to watch the students, make do for a month and wait for Gao teacher to come back. The dropout rate at Shuiquan Elementary School is so severe that it loses students every year, and now there are only 28. Gao teacher before leaving repeatedly told Wei Minzhi must look at the students, one can not be less. Wei Minzhi will not have class, all day long let the students copy the text, count the number of people every day. The students saw that she was small, did not listen to her words, and even deliberately disturbed the classroom. But she did not ask questions, just kept guard at the door of the classroom, and did not let the students go until the time was not allowed. Ten-year-old Zhang Huike had to drop out of school to work in the city in order to pay off his family's debts. Wei Minzhi remember high teacher told, one can not be less, determined to find Zhang Huike, set foot on the road to the city alone
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Not one less
| CHARACTERS | ACTORS | DUB |
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| Wei Minzhi | Wei Minzhi | - |
| Zhang Huike | Zhang Huike | - |
| Village chief | Tian Zhengda | - |
| Miss Gao | Go Eun Man | - |
| Sun Zhimei | Sun Zhimei | - |
| TV concierge | Feng Yuying | - |
| TV host | Li Fanfan | - |
| County middle school teachers | Zhang Yichang | - |
| Kiln owner | Xu Zhanqing | - |
| Zhang Huike's mother | Liu Hanzhi | - |
| Middle-aged passenger | Ma Guolin | - |
| Station director | Wu Wanlu | - |
| Station announcer | Liu Ru | - |
| stationer | Wang Shulan | - |
| Television director | Fu Xinmin | - |
| restaurateur | White rose | - |
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| producer | Zhao Yu,Zhang Weiping |
| Production MANAGER: | Zhang Zhenyan, Hu Xiaofeng |
| Supervise the production of | Zhang Weiping |
| Original work | Shi Xiangsheng |
| director | Zhang Yimou |
| Assistant Director (Assistant) | Te Ya, Xie Dong |
| WRITER | Shi Xiangsheng |
| shoot | Hou Yong |
| Background music | triratna |
| montage | Zhai Ru |
| Art director | Cao Jiuping |
| Fashion design | Tong Humiao |
| Recorded AT | Vulara |
Credits Reference Sources:
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Wei Minzhi
ACTORS
Wei Minzhi
DUB
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Students of Zhenningbao Township middle School, Chicheng County, Hebei province. She was invited by the head of Shuiquangou Village to be a substitute teacher at Shuiquan Primary School. The former teacher Gao teacher before leaving told Wei Minzhi can not let a student drop out. She kept in mind the high teacher's advice, after the student Zhang Huike dropped out of school to work in the city, she embarked on the road to the city alone. In the end, after twists and turns, she finally found Zhang Huike, Shuiquangou village also got the help of good people.
Zhang Huike
ACTORS
Zhang Huike
DUB
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Students at Water Springs Elementary School. He is very naughty, after Wei Minzhi came to take over the class, he often disturb the class. Later, due to the high debts of the family, he had to drop out of school and go to work in the city. However, he was lost at the station from the people in the city who had come to meet him, and he had to live on the street alone. Finally, he was found in the city by Wei Minzhi.
Village chief
ACTORS
Tian Zhengda
DUB
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Village head, Shuiquangou Village, Dazhuangke Township, Yanqing County, Beijing. Because the village primary and secondary school teacher Gao needed time off, he traveled a lot and finally brought in a substitute teacher from other places for the primary school. During Wei Minzhi's substitute teaching period, he has also been helping Wei Minzhi manage the class.
Miss Gao
ACTORS
Go Eun Man
DUB
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A teacher at Water Springs Elementary School. Due to returning home to visit his seriously ill mother, he leaves the school in the hands of Wei Minzhi, a substitute teacher. Before he left, he told Wei Minzhi to copy the text on the blackboard every day for the students to copy; And thousands of ding million tell Wei Minzhi, a student can not be less.
Role Description Reference Sources:
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Basic information
Date of issue: 2000-12-16
Artist:
triratna
Language: Pure music
Record label: Bamboo Book Entertainment
Reference sources:
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Track list
1. Reading the Diary
2. Moving Bricks
3. Into the City
4. The Missing Man Revelation
5. Early Morning
6. Living on the Street
7. "Being Interviewed"
8. "Not One Less"
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- 1.
All the actors in the film were amateurs, and Zhang Yimou interviewed more than 20,000 children to find the right actors [10] ; In addition, the actors used their real names in the film, and most of the actors' identities in the film were consistent with their real-life identities [7] .
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In the process of adapting the screenplay, Zhang Yimou and Shi Xiangsheng, the author of the original work, talked behind closed doors for four months [10] ; Eventually, the older male protagonist in the original book was replaced by a 13-year-old junior high school girl named Wei Minzhi, putting the overall focus on underage children [7] .
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In order to achieve realism, the slogans on the blackboard in the film were written by the village teachers in the shooting place [10] .
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The film was originally registered for the main competition of the Cannes International Film Festival, but due to the selection process, some people believe that the film is propaganda for the Chinese government. Days before the main competition shortlist was announced, Mr. Zhang withdrew the film and wrote an open letter of protest to the Cannes Film Festival [7] .
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Wei Minzhi and Zhang Huike have been well-intentioned to help them go to school after the shooting of the film, and they successfully completed their studies [7] .
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Zhang Yimou donated a Shuiquan Hope Elementary School for the filming location [7] .
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Because the film is in line with Chinese policies, the National Copyright Administration of China issued a special copyright protection notice for this film, which is the first time that China has formally protected the copyright of a Chinese film [11] .
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The year 1999
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Main competition unit - Golden Lion Award for Best Film
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Not one Less
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United Nations Children's Fund Award
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Magic Moment Award
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Sergio Trasatti Award
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23rd Sao Paulo International Film Festival
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Audience Choice Award - Best Picture
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Best feature Film
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Best feature Film
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nominate
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Best director
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Zhang Yimou
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Best photography
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Hou Yong
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nominate
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Universal Screen Award - Best Foreign Language Film
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Best feature Film
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Excellent feature film
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Best director
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Zhang Yimou
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The year 2000
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The 74th Japan Film Xunpo Awards
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The third of the top 10 foreign language films of the year
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Not one Less
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Best Foreign language Film Director
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Zhang Yimou
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The 21st Young Artist Awards
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Best International Film
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Not one Less
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Best performance in an international motion picture
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Wei Minzhi
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The year 2008
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Rural theme film Award
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2022
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New Era International Film Festival Golden Yanghua Award
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A hundred years of quality movies
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Creative company
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Production company
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1. Columbia Pictures (USA)
2. Guangxi Film Studio (China)
3. Beijing New Picture Film Company
4. Film Productions Asia
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Issuing company
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1. Columbia Samsung Home Video (USA)
2. LK-TEL (Argentina)
3. Columbia TriStar Films de Argentina (Argentina)
4, Columbia TriStar Film GmbH (Germany)
5. Columbia TriStar Films (France)
6. SONY Classics (USA)
7. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (Japan, USA)
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Film release
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Country and region
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Release date, details
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Country and region
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Release date, details
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Italy
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7 September 1999 (Venice International Film Festival)
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Korea
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30 October 1999
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France
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November 3, 1999
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Hong Kong, China
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December 2, 1999
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Singapore
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December 2, 1999
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Malaysia
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December 2, 1999
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Thailand
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17 December 1999
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Norse
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26 December 1999
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Belgium
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12 January 2000
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Mexico
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14 January 2000
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America
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January 21, 2000 (Sundance Film Festival)
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Italy
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21 January 2000
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Netherlands
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10 February 2000
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Australia
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17 February 2000
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New York, USA
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18 February 2000
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Argentina
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7 April 2000 (Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival)
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Tokyo, Japan
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1 July 2000
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Sweden
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14 July 2000
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Germany
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10 August 2000
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Argentina
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10 August 2000
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Switzerland
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24 August 2000 (German-speaking)
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Hungary
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31 August 2000 (Video release)
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Iceland
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31 October 2000 (Video release)
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Indonesia
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4 November 2000 (Jakarta International Film Festival)
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NZ
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November 30, 2000 (DVD release)
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Finland
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2000 (DVD release)
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Spain
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26 January 2001
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Israel
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31 May 2001
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Poland
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October 8, 2001 (Warsaw International Film Festival)
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Production and distribution Reference sources:
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"Not One Less" tells a simple, rustic yet touching story, with a warmth and sweetness that audiences find hard to resist. The film is somewhat similar to the practice of Italian neorealist films, using non-professional actors, real scenes and natural light shooting, and a large number of medium-range, calm and restrained long shots to maintain the objectivity and integrity of space and performance. The film embodies Zhang Yimou's superb artistic control, realism style, pure to simple; Through the design of the scene, editing and the use of music, sensational but not vulgar. However, beyond the artistic level, perhaps the greater significance of the film lies in its insight into social reality
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However, Zhang Yimou's way of solving the contradictions in reality is a little too idealistic
[7]
The film ends with the children writing and drawing in colored chalk, a typical romantic ending. A film can change a person's fate, but it can not change the poor and backward education of a region; A director can paint the ending of his film with a romantic touch, but he cannot paint the grim social reality with the same romantic touch
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(Los Angeles Times, MTime, Legal Evening News
"Comprehensive review)
