Dead Souls

Dead Souls 2018

死灵魂 sǐ línghún

In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.

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4.66 Intermediate Director Wang Bing 🍅 100%

Vocabulary

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见过 見過 jiànguò seen HSK 2
得很 得很 de hěn (after an adjective) very ∼HSK 2
基 基 jī foundation, base ∼HSK 2
成了 成了 chéng le to be done; to be ready; that's enough!; that will do! ∼HSK 2
分队 分隊 fēn duì military platoon or squad ∼HSK 2
吃掉 吃掉 chī diào to eat up; to consume ∼HSK 2
脚镣 腳鐐 jiǎo liào fetters; leg-irons ∼HSK 2
实 實 shí real, true; honest, sincere ∼HSK 2
那种 那種 nà zhǒng that kind of ∼HSK 2
房 房 Fáng surname Fang ∼HSK 2
刘 劉 Liú surname; kill, destroy ∼HSK 2
外墙 外牆 wài qiáng facade; external wall ∼HSK 2
林 林 Lín forest, grove; surname ∼HSK 2
英 英 Yīng petal, flower, leaf; brave, a hero; England, English ∼HSK 2
华 華 Huá flowery; illustrious; Chinese ∼HSK 2
黄花 黃花 huáng huā yellow flowers (of various types); chrysanthemum; cauliflower; (yellow) daylily; a young virgin (boy or girl) ∼HSK 2
知道了 知道了 zhī dào le OK!; Got it! ∼HSK 2
陈 陳 Chén exhibit, display; plead; a surname ∼HSK 2
推倒 推倒 tuī dǎo to push over; to overthrow ∼HSK 2
卡住 卡住 kǎ zhù to jam; to choke; to clutch; also pr. [qia3 zhu4] ∼HSK 2
一句 一句 yī jù a line of verse; a sentence ∼HSK 2
面的 麵的 miàn dī abbr. of; minivan taxi ∼HSK 2
当上 當上 dāng shang to take up duty as; to assume a position; to assume; to take on (an office) ∼HSK 2
头一 頭一 tóu yī the first ∼HSK 2
没问题 沒問題 méi wèn tí no problem ∼HSK 2
吃完 吃完 chī wán to finish eating ∼HSK 2
头头 頭頭 tóu tóu head; chief ∼HSK 2
八月份 八月份 bā yuè fèn August ∼HSK 2
十二月份 十二月份 shí èr yuè fèn December ∼HSK 2
汽 汽 qì steam, vapor, gas ∼HSK 2
什么时候 什麼時候 shén me shí hou when?; at what time? ∼HSK 2
写信 寫信 xiě xìn to write a letter ∼HSK 2
不一样 不一樣 bù yī yàng different; distinctive; unlike ∼HSK 2
参 參 cān take part in, intervene; ginseng ∼HSK 2
排水 排水 pái shuǐ to drain ∼HSK 2
套间 套間 tào jiān vestibule; small inner room (opening to others); suite; apartment ∼HSK 2
片名 片名 piān míng movie title ∼HSK 2
府 府 fǔ prefecture; prefect; government ∼HSK 2
万人 萬人 wàn rén ten thousand people; all the people; everyman ∼HSK 2
营 營 yíng encampment, barracks; manage ∼HSK 2
有成 有成 yǒu chéng (literary) to achieve success ∼HSK 2
物 物 wù thing, substance, creature ∼HSK 2
收下 收下 shōu xià to accept; to receive ∼HSK 2
生下 生下 shēng xià to give birth to ∼HSK 2
提级 提級 tí jí a step up; to rise to the next level ∼HSK 2
借着 藉著 jiè zhe by means of; through; with the help of ∼HSK 2
面面 面面 miàn miàn multiple viewpoints ∼HSK 2
倒换 倒換 dǎo huàn to take turns; to rotate (responsibility) ∼HSK 2
洗雪 洗雪 xǐ xuě to erase; to wipe out (a previous humiliation etc) ∼HSK 2
身 身 shēn body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 ∼HSK 2