Yellow Earth (1984)
Original title: 黄土地
Yellow Earth is a 1984 Chinese-language drama movie directed by Chen Kaige, with a running time of 1h 31m. It stars Xue Bai, Wang Xueqi and Tuo Tan.
A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust.