Five Girls and a Rope

Five Girls and a Rope (1990)

April 1st, 19902h 3min

Drama
58%

Overview

Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.


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