Movie poster for The Year of Honmei. The film is starring Jiang Wen, Cheng Lin and others, and was directed by Xie Fei, a fourth-generation Chinese director, in 1990. It is a masterpiece that reflects realism and shows the confusion of the vast number of young people at that time. On February 20, 1990, "The Year of The Life" won the Silver Bear Award at the then West Berlin Film Festival.
Jiang Wen plays Li Huiquan, a social youth released after completing his sentence in the film. This is Li Huiquan practicing stalls on the street. Li Huiquan seems to be a bad young man in society, and he also has certain vices, but he is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and there are still some pure feelings. Some people say that Jiang Wen presented the best performance of his life in "The Year of The Life".
The singer in the film, Zhao Yaqiu, is played by the real singer Cheng Lin at that time, which is also one of the few films in which Cheng Lin participated. Cheng Lin is a child actress who has sung songs such as "Little Snail", "Panda Mimi", "Xintianyou" and so on.
Afraid that Zhao Yaqiu will be bullied, Li Huiquan, played by Jiang Wen, sends her home every night. He is both inferior and responsible, and gradually develops feelings for Zhao Yaqiu, but Zhao Yaqiu's heart is not here, which makes Li Huiquan, who has pure feelings in his heart, feel lost.
At that time, Liang Tian, who was extremely thin, played the role of "brush" in the film. A paragraph in his film about various "boring" statements resonated with the vast number of young people at that time.
Liu Bin is Jiang Wen's middle school classmate and plays a film policeman who often urges Li Huiquan in the film. Since then, Liu Bin has also become a police professional, playing a policeman in many film and television dramas such as "I Love My Home" and "Never Look Away".
Actor Liu Xiaoning plays the escaped fugitive fork in the film. Liu Xiaoning often plays a tough guy, and many years later, he cooperated with Jiang Wen in "Looking for a Gun".
Cai Hongxiang plays the bad young man Cui Yongli, always trying to lead Li Huiquan to the evil road. Cai Hongxiang has a bad guy's face and later played a liar in "The Story of the Editorial Department".
Actor Yue Hong plays Li Huiquan's hair small.
When Li Huiquan poured out the clothes, he was depressed in his heart and fiddled with women's clothes.
Li Huiquan's small courtyard ushered in spring, but at the age of 24, he did not wait for the spring of his life.
After being rejected by Zhao Yaqiu, who became a singer, Li Huiquan was discouraged and shed tears. He was drunk walking down the street, and was stabbed in the abdomen by two teenagers, and black and red blood flowed out. Li Huiquan covered his wounds and fell on the street, the leaves fell to the ground, and no one cared.
Jiang Wen and Xie Fei during the filming of the film.
During the filming of the film.
The film is based on Liu Heng's novel "Black Snow". Originally, the film and the novel were the same as "Black Snow", but there was no snow when the film was filmed, Jiang Wenlingji proposed to call it "Honmei Year", and the protagonist in the film did die in his own Honmei year, so "Honmei Year" became the final title. 1990 is also the year of director Xie Fei's life.
The Silver Bear Award for "The Year of The Life".
An international version of the poster for The Year of The Lord.