| Lover's Grief over the Yellow River | |||||||||||||
| Director: | Feng Xiaoning | ||||||||||||
| Producer: | Jiang Ping | ||||||||||||
| Starring: | Paul Kersey Ning Jing | ||||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Feng Xiaoning | ||||||||||||
| Editing: | Feng Sihai | ||||||||||||
| Studio: | Shanghai Film Studio | ||||||||||||
| Runtime: | 110 minutes | ||||||||||||
| Language: | Mandarin | ||||||||||||
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Lover's Grief over the Yellow River is a 1999 Chinese film directed by Feng Xiaoning. It was China's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not receive a nomination.[1] Feng considers it the second of his "War and Peace" (战争与和平) trilogy.
The plot centers on an American pilot, played by Paul Kersey, who also starred in Feng Xiaoning's 1997 Red River Valley, a film which depicted the British invasion of Tibet in 1905. During the Second Sino-Japanese War the American pilot makes a forced landing near the Great Wall in North China but is taken into the care of the Communist guerilla forces. He meets and falls in love with a young woman fighter who had been raped by the Japanese invaders. The American returns to the Yellow River after the opening of China in the 1980s.