11/28/2012, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Avenue (at East 70 Street)
New York, NY 10021
Two Stage Sisters 舞台姐妹
Dir. XIE Jin 谢晋. 1964. China. Color. 107 min. 35mm. With English subtitles.
Featuring XIE Fang 谢芳, CAO Yindi 曹银娣.
One of the last films made before the Cultural Revolution, Two Stage Sisters follows the lives of two female opera performers, Chunhua (Xie Fang) and Yuehong (Cao Yindi), from 1935 to 1950 as they leave a small countryside folk opera troupe and join a theater company in Shanghai.
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