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When the Bough Breaks

2013 · 144 min · Documentary

Ji Dan’s documentary about the daughters of a dirt-poor family living among Beijing scrap heaps, and their ferocious determination to get an education, is exhilarating, heart breaking, life affirming, shocking, despairing and ecstatic, all at once.

Director
Ji Dan
Released
January 1, 2013
Language
Chinese
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