THE WIDOWED WITCH

By Chengjie CAI

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Drama - Completed 2018


Festivals
& Awards

Rotterdam IFF 2018
Tiger Awards Competition Tiger Award
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Drama, First film
    • Countries
    • CHINA
    • Languages
    • MANDARIN
    • Duration
    • 118 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Chengjie CAI
    • Writer(s)
    • Chengjie CAI
    • Producer(s)
    • Feng JIAO, Xiaotao HU
    • Synopsis
    • After losing her house and husband, rural woman Wang Erhao leads a stranded life with her ten-year-old brother-in-law in a modified “recreational vehicle”. Shedrives this “recreational vehicle” around different villages, and talks about her unknown past to her little brother-in-law along the way in retrospect of her life. In order to find a warm place to survive the cold winter, she pretends to be a shaman to rid villagers of evil spirits, and ironically, her juggled deceits often become real. However, she soon loses her power to people’s greed and apathy, and in meager attempts of salvation, her life story eventually ends in tragedy and disillusionment.