The first of three films about the Chinese countryside. Small Happiness
In this unusual film, made by Carma Hinton , an American who was brought up in China, the women of a small village talk unrestrainedly about love and marriage, husbands and mothers-in-law, babies and childbearing.... And the grandmothers talk touchingly of the bad old days: child marriages, footbinding, servitude....
Seldom has a film got as close to the ordinary women of China - and there are 400 million of them!
Narrator Libby Purves Produced and directed by CARMA HINTON and RICHARD GORDON Produced for the BBC by VIVIANA WOODRUFF (R)