"Après avoir été rossé par Wang Tang, le chef du village, pour une histoire de construction de hangar, Qinglai se retrouve cloué au lit, les "bijoux de famille" fortement éprouvés. Qiu Ju, son épouse qui est enceinte, exige des excuses de Wang. Devant le refus de celui-ci, la jeune femme porte plainte, certificat médical en main, auprès de la police locale qui oblige l'offenseur de dédommager la victime. Face au mépris affiché de Wang devant cette sentence, l'obstinée Qiu Ju s'adresse alors aux autorités du district. N'étant pas encore satisfaite du jugement, elle se rend jusqu'au tribunal qui siège dans la capitale. Quand le moment d'accoucher arrive, Qiu Ju doit la vie sauve à la prompte intervention de Wang. Alors qu'on fête le nouveau-né, le chef du village est amené par la police, la justice ayant fait son chemin."
"A stoic peasant woman demands an apology when her husband is kicked in the groin by the village chief. But the Chief is a proud man who refuses to apologize, sending her on a futile trek through the complicated Chinese court system."
"A stoic peasant woman demands an apology when her husband is kicked by the village chief. When the chief refuses to apologize, she sets off on a futile trek through the complicated Chinese court system-- a battle against bureaucracy and indifference."
"In a small Chinese village a farmer (Qing Lai) and his chief quarrel over land. When Qing Lai is injured by the chief, who kicks him in the groin, Qing's wife Qiu Ju begins a quixotic odyssey that takes her from her small village to the provincial capital. She is relentless in her one-woman crusade to wreak a simple justice from the proud Chief ... she wants him to apologize."
"In a small Chinese village a farmer (Qing Lai) and his chief quarrel over land. When Qing Lai is injured by the chief, who kicks him in the groin, Qing's wife Qiu Ju begins a quixotic odyssey that takes her from her small village to the provincial capital. She is relentless in her one-woman crusade to wreak a simple justice from the proud Chief... she wants him to apologize."
"A pregnant peasant woman fights for justice when her husband is savagely beaten by the village chief."
"Qiu Ju is a stoic peasant woman who demands an apology when her husband is kicked in the groin by the village Chief. But the Chief is a proud man who refuses to apologize, sending Qiu Ju on a futile trek through the complicated Chinese court system."
"Als een man door het dorpshoofd wordt vernederd gaat zijn vrouw in de grote stad op zoek naar gerechtigheid."
"A tenacious Chinese woman is determined to right a wrong done to her husband. Defying all stereotypes of the passive Chinese woman, she remains unbowed by the frustrations of bureaucracy in her quixotic search for dignity."
"The story of a village woman who goes to great lengths to sue the village chief who beats her husband in a dispute over land rights."
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