Tears of the Goddess
While honoring the memory of her mother, a young girl recalls her story of a tragic, secret love, destroyed by intellectuals of the Cultural Revolution in this 2006 short film from China.
While honoring the memory of her mother, a young girl recalls her story of a tragic, secret love, destroyed by intellectuals of the Cultural Revolution in this 2006 short film from China.
While honoring the memory of her mother, a young girl recalls her story of a tragic, secret love, destroyed by intellectuals of the Cultural Revolution in this 2006 short film from China.
Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan in India, who was blinded by her stepmother, Wang must confront the trauma of living through the violent uprising in his youth, the Cultural Revolution.
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