The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh life of these men, who coped with physical exhaustion, extreme cold, starvation and death on a daily basis.
Cast
Cheng Zhengwu
Unknown
Niansong Jing
Unknown
Xiangnian Li
Unknown
Renjun Lian
Unknown
Ye Lu
Xiao Li
Yang Haoyu
Lao Dong
Jieleu Wan
Unknown
Li Daguang
Unknown
Wang Dayuan
Unknown
Liming Lei
Unknown
Li Jiaqi
Unknown
Zi Feng
Unknown
Guangcheng Yuan
Unknown
Xiaoyu Tian
Unknown
Gaoli Qi
Unknown
Xingfa Zhao
Unknown
Wenyi Chen
Unknown
Guofeng Jiao
Unknown
Guangzheng Zhang
Unknown
Lei He
Unknown
Xiandong He
Unknown
Wei Wang
Unknown
Junpeng Hup
Unknown
Xu Cenzi
Gu
Crew
Wang Bing
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Yang Xianhui
Novel
Marie-Hélène Dozo
Editor
Lu Sheng
Director of Photography
Mao Hui
Producer
Kong Lihong
Producer
Francisco Villa-Lobos
Producer
Wang Yang
Producer
Yang Wang
Production Design
Zhang Wanxiong
Production Design
Fuzheng Wang
Costume Design
Fu Kang
Sound Designer
Gilles Laurent
Sound Editor
Michel Schillings
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Aldo Mulone
Production Manager
