Red Sorghum with Dutch, English, French and Portuguese subtitles
is a 1987 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou. It is based on the novel Red Sorghum Clan by Nobel laureate Mo Yan.
The film won the Golden Bear Award at Berlin Film Festival.
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu’er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as “my Grandpa” by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu’er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.
