A Withered Tree Meets Spring

A critical hit during one of Chinas most politically charged periods Zhengs followup to his 1959 anniversary epics merged Sovietstyle socialist realism with his own breakthroughs in film technique specifically his use of continuous camera movement in the spirit of traditional Chinese scrolls Tractorkino at its finest the film revolves around two rural loversone struck with a deadly diseaseand their eventual survival thanks to socialist medical advances