Five Girls and a Rope (1990)
Overview
Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.
Cast
Recommendations
Scandalous Sex
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
Buddha Mountain
Tigertail
The Girl in the Book
Gracie
Lighting Up the Stars
Gigi & Nate
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Herself
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Won't Back Down
The Safety of Objects
Eleanor the Great
One Second
Bastard Out of Carolina
Home Run
Hands of Stone
Sky