PEAKFLIX

白鹿原

Original title: 白鹿原

Year

2017

Rating

★ 8.3/10

Runtime

45 min

Seasons

1

Genres

Savaş & Politik, Dram

Set in the eponymous White Deer Village in Shaanxi Province where the two most important families – Bai and Lu – and their sons have always lived together in peace. But the turmoil leads to a fierce struggle for land ownership. A young woman new to the village soon finds herself caught between the two camps. Director Liu Jin uses the story of these two families as a metaphor for the fate of the Chinese people as first Chinese war lords are overrun by Japanese invaders, then civil war follows hot on the heels of the Second World War and finally the victorious Maoists begin waving their red flags. The drama is based off the novel by Chen Zhong Shi.

Cast: 张嘉益, He Bing, 秦海璐, 刘佩琦, 李洪涛, Ge Zhijun, 雷佳音, 翟天臨