The Wild Strawberries (2013)

Northeast China, 1971, during the Cultural Revolution. At a time of heightened military tension between China and the Soviet Union following the 1969 Zhenbao Island Incident, soldier Jiao Ming Liang is accidentally killed while rescuing a young boy, Li Duo Duo, during the collapse of an air-raid shelter. His widow, young Luo Xue Mei, is co-opted by the Red Army authorities into making heroic propaganda out of his death by hastily staging an opera, using music from other model operas. Later, while working at the Red Star Munitions Factory, Xue Mei meets handsome Zhu Fu Zhong, a weapons tester, who had earlier written her an anonymous letter sympathising with her exploitation, and the two start a clandestine affair. Factory director, Du Yu Chun, a widower with a nine-year-old son, asks her to participate in radio broadcasts with Zhao Hai Qiang. When she turns down Du's offer of marriage and promotion, Du forces her hapless fellow worker, Li Xian Ling, to spy on her and Fu Zhong. Edit Translation

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