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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1999 - 18.24 July

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THE ELEVENTH CHILD

Category: Edition 1999

Synopsis
In a village legend has it that the scourge of leprosy is caused by the fish that cries in the lake. Only a man with five sons and five females can kill him. A man once succeeded in having ten children, but his wife, after giving birth to the tenth son, while on the lake was about to perform the rite, gave birth to an eleventh. The man killed his wife and threw away his eldest son, Tang Primo, because he intended to save the last, Tang the Eleventh. Thirty years later Tang Primo is the village fortune teller; the minor, however, lives elsewhere with the pregnant wife of the tenth child. When leprosy begins to reap new victims, the prophet prophesies that only Tang the Eleventh will save the village. Making him believe that even Tang Primo is ill, the inhabitants convince his brother to return to the village with his family to fulfill the prophecy.

Original Title Tang, le onzième
Italian Title The eleventh child
Category Official Competition
Section Rear Window
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 91'
Production Year 1998
Nationality Canada, Vietnam
Directed by Dai Sijie
Screenplay Sijie Dai, Nadine Perront
Main cast Akihiro Nishida, Tapa Sudana, Nguyen Thi My Chau

 regista Dai sijieDAI SIJIE

Dai Sijie (Chengdu, March 2, 1954) is a Chinese writer and director.
Son of a doctor, Dai Sijie was born in China and from a very young age he was sent to the Sichuan province in a rehabilitation camp until 1974. Upon Mao's death, he entered the University where he studied art history and where he managed to obtain a scholarship. of study in France. Since then he lives and works in Paris.