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Sacrifice is a chinois film of genre Drama directed by Chen Kaige released in USA on 27 july 2012 with Wang Xueqi
Sacrifice (2010)
赵氏孤儿, Zhào Shì Gū Ér
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Add to a movie listSacrifice is a 2010 Chinese historical drama film directed by Chen Kaige and based on the Yuan Dynasty play The Orphan of Zhao. The film was distributed in the United States by Samuel Goldwyn Flms.
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The story is set in Jin, a ducal state under the Zhou dynasty, during the Spring and Autumn Period of ancient China. Zhao Dun, the chancellor of Jin, and his son, General Zhao Shuo, have a rift with General Tu'an Gu. Tu'an Gu secretly murders the young Duke of Jin with poison and pushes the blame to the Zhao family, using that as an excuse to massacre the entire Zhao clan, numbering about 300 people. The sole survivor is Zhao Shuo's baby son, Zhao Wu, who is born to the Duke's elder sister, Lady Zhuang. Lady Zhuang pleads with Tu'an Gu's subordinate, Han Jue, to spare her child and commits suicide after entrusting Zhao Wu to the physician Cheng Ying, telling Cheng to bring the child to Gongsun Chujiu, a friend of the Zhao family. When Tu'an Gu learns that the orphan had escaped, he slashes his sword at Han Jue's face in anger, disfiguring Han. Subsequently, Tu'an Gu issues an order to seal the gates and to gather all newborn babies in the city. The ploy was to identify the Zhao orphan since Tu'an Gu was counting on the person hiding the baby to not hand over the baby to him, hence singling out the one baby left in the city to be the Zhao infant.Actors
Wang Xueqi
(Tu'an Gu (屠岸贾), a Jin general.)
Fàn Bīngbīng (范冰冰)
(Mrs. ZhuangJi)
Zhang Fengyi
(Gongsun Chujiu (公孙杵臼), a Jin official and a friend of the Zhao family.)
Huang Xiaoming
(Han Jue (韩厥), Tu'an Gu's subordinate.)
Chiu Man-cheuk
(Shuo Zhao)
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