A Chinese peasant is given the responsibility of protecting his village's special dairy cow during a particularly harsh winter in 1940.
Acting
Huang Bo's face alone tells 90% of the story.
Direction
Guan Hu balances slapstick and tragedy like a tightrope over hell.
Director
Guan Hu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film satirizes Chinese wartime propaganda tropes by making the hero utterly unheroic—just a guy who really loves his cow.
Huang Bo won Best Actor at Golden Horse Awards; the cow was reportedly easier to work with than most co-stars.
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