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%

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老伴 老伴 lǎo bàn (of an elderly couple) husband or wife ∼HSK 6
持家 持家 chí jiā to housekeep; to run one's household ∼HSK 6
奉养 奉養 fèng yǎng to look after (elderly parents); Taiwan pr. [feng4yang4] ∼HSK 6
逆境 逆境 nì jìng adversity; predicament ∼HSK 6
德行 德行 dé xíng morality and conduct; Taiwan pr. [de2 xing4] ∼HSK 6
乱葬岗 亂葬崗 luàn zàng gǎng unmarked burial mound; untended graveyard; mass grave ∼HSK 6
撤掉 撤掉 chè diào to cut; to throw out; to depose (from office); to tear off ∼HSK 6
统购统销 統購統銷 tǒng gòu tǒng xiāo state monopoly of purchasing and marketing ∼HSK 6
余粮 餘糧 yú liáng surplus grain ∼HSK 6
侄儿 侄兒 zhír nephew ∼HSK 6
面疙瘩 麵疙瘩 miàn gē da dough dumpling ∼HSK 6
吊死 吊死 diào sǐ death by hanging; to hang oneself ∼HSK 6
副刊 副刊 fù kān supplement ∼HSK 6
浇水 澆水 jiāo shuǐ to water (plants etc) ∼HSK 6
不识字 不識字 bù shí zì illiterate ∼HSK 6
小娃娃 小娃娃 xiǎo wá wa baby ∼HSK 6
半截 半截 bàn jié half (of sth); halfway through ∼HSK 6
炒面 炒麵 chǎo miàn stir-fried noodles; "chow mein" ∼HSK 6
转制 轉製 zhuǎn zhì to convert; to reprocess; to turn (sth) into ∼HSK 6
感恩戴德 感恩戴德 gǎn ēn dài dé deeply grateful ∼HSK 6
总则 總則 zǒng zé general rules; general principles; general provisions ∼HSK 6
隔绝 隔絕 gé jué to cut off; to isolate; isolated (from the world) ∼HSK 6
闹别扭 鬧彆扭 nào biè niu to be difficult with sb; to provoke disagreement; at loggerheads; to fall out with ∼HSK 6
右倾 右傾 yòu qīng right-wing; reactionary; conservative; (PRC) rightist deviation ∼HSK 6
辩证法 辯證法 biàn zhèng fǎ dialectics; dialectic or Socratic method of debate ∼HSK 6
一党 一黨 yī dǎng one-party (state) ∼HSK 6
打折扣 打折扣 dǎ zhé kòu to give a discount; to be of less value than anticipated ∼HSK 6
设局 設局 shè jú to set a trap ∼HSK 6
勘察 勘察 kān chá to reconnoiter; to explore; to survey ∼HSK 6
枣树 棗樹 zǎo shù jujube tree; date tree; Zizyphus vulgaris ∼HSK 6
野草 野草 yě cǎo weeds; mistress or prostitute (old) ∼HSK 6
苞谷 苞穀 bāo gǔ variant of ∼HSK 6
胎盘 胎盤 tāi pán placenta ∼HSK 6
洗净 洗淨 xǐ jìng to wash clean ∼HSK 6
活命 活命 huó mìng life; to survive; to save a life; to scrape a living ∼HSK 6
串通 串通 chuàn tōng to collude; to collaborate; to gang up ∼HSK 6
窑洞 窯洞 yáo dòng yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China) ∼HSK 6
尿盆 尿盆 niào pén chamber pot ∼HSK 6
逃命 逃命 táo mìng to escape; to flee; to run for one's life ∼HSK 6
周延 周延 zhōu yán exhaustive; distributed (logic: applies to every instance) ∼HSK 6
危亡 危亡 wēi wáng at stake; in peril ∼HSK 6
贫寒 貧寒 pín hán poor; poverty-stricken; impoverished ∼HSK 6
诗礼之家 詩禮之家 shī lǐ zhī jiā 诗: poetry; poem, verse, ode · 礼: social custom; manners; courtesy · 之: marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to · 家: house, home, residence; family ∼HSK 6
兴亡 興亡 xīng wáng to flourish and decay; rise and fall ∼HSK 6
繁杂 繁雜 fán zá many; diverse ∼HSK 6
坎坷 坎坷 kǎn kě (of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes ∼HSK 6
尽言 盡言 jìn yán saying everything; to speak out fully ∼HSK 6
展露 展露 zhǎn lù to expose; to reveal ∼HSK 6
含冤 含冤 hán yuān wronged; to suffer false accusations ∼HSK 6
列祖列宗 列祖列宗 liè zǔ liè zōng 列: a line; to arrange in order, classify · 祖: ancestor, forefather; grandfather · 列: a line; to arrange in order, classify · 宗: lineage, ancestry; ancestor, clan ∼HSK 6