Aftershock (2010)2h15
Drama
Director Feng Xiaogang
Also directed A World Without Thieves, Assembly, The Banquet, and 18 more
Tangshan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twins are buried under the rubble of the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century. The rescue team explains to their mother that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son. Though left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives, unbeknownst to her brother and mother.
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Cast
Xu Fan
Zhang Jingchu
Wang Ziwen
Chen Daoming
Jerry Lee
Chen Jin
Zhang Guoqiang
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