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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.
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Zhang Jiayi He Bing Qin Hailu Liu Peiqi Lei Jiayin Zhai Tianlin Li Qin Ta Ji Wang Xiao Sun Yi Tian Hao Haoyu Yang Hu Yaozhi Ge Zhijun Deng Lun Meng Zhao Zhong Cao Xin Yue Li Hongtao Wang Yiquan Wang Haiyan Wang Xinjun Nan Ji Hao Yang Sun Hao Ba Duo Zhang Yao Dong Jie Wang Shuangbao Weiwei Wang Xing Hanqing Yang Fan Changqing Yang
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