Cong Peixin

Winner of the Golden Rooster for Best Film in 1992

Dramatization of the life of blind musician ABing (Huà Yànjūn).

Taking place in the immediate aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Evening Bell follows a small platoon of five Chinese soldiers who must negotiate a devastated landscape, burying bodies, disarming mines, and eventually facing off against a starving band of Japanese soldiers who do not yet know that the war has ended.