Aftershock

Aftershock

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Drama

Aftershock

唐山大地震DIRECTED BYFeng Xiaogang135mins2010

23 seconds, 32 years.

Tangshan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twins are buried under the rubble of the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century. The rescue team explains to their mother that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son. Though left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives, unbeknownst to her brother and mother.

Other films by Feng Xiaogang

Back to 1942
A World Without Thieves
Youth
The Banquet

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