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Arts & Entertainment
Sheldon program features ‘Sacrificed Youth’
By Micki Haller
Senior Editor_
During the cultural revolution in
China, many young people were ex
iled to the countryside to live and
work.
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Those children are now grown up;
their experiences make some of the
themes of modem Chinese literature
and films. New directors, known as
the “fifth generation” of Chinese
cinema, want to examine the cultural
revolution and its ramifications on
Chinese culture.
“Sacrificed Youth” is another film
by one of these fifth generation direc
tors, and part of Sheldon Film
Theater’s New Chinese Cinema pro
gram.
Directed and scripted by Xhang
Nuanxin, a woman who graduated
from the Beijing Film Academy in
1962, “Sacrificed Youth” is about a
city girl who is exiled to the Yunnan
province to live with the Dai minor
ity.
Li Chun (Li Fengxu) lives with a
farmer and his aged mother, Ya. She
takes a liking to the family, and
slowly adapts to the ways of the Dai.
Coming from Beijing, life is hard
for Li at first. She doesn’t fit in with
the Dai villagers. They are uninhibi
ted, emotional people with a simple
life and simple ways. Li, a Han, has
been taught austerity; her clothes are
plain and ugly to the Dai and her ways
are citified.
“Dai kids like beauty,” the farmer
tells her. “Why don’t you do yourself
up a bit?”
“We were taught that beauty lies in
simplicity,” Li says, but her clothes
change from the dull, city blues to
bright sarongs, and she wears her hair
up, like the rest of the Dai.
The other girls begin to accep t her,
and she slowly becomes part of the
clan.
The villagers begin to accept her;
the other city youths laugh a little, but
even they are accepting these new
ways.
In the meantime, the farmer’s son
comes home. He sees Li and falls in
love. But Li loves a boy from Beijing,
Ren Jia. During a festival, the son
becomes drunk and beats Ren. Li
leaves the village to teach elementary
school.
Eventually she leaves the country
side, and enters college.
She returns once, and finds that the
village has been destroyed by a mud
slide.
One of the themes in the movie is
the choice that women have in soci
ety. Li could choose between a tough,
intellectual life in the city, or a life of
hard physical labor in the country.
She is seduced by the easy country
ways; despite the hard work, she
doesn’t have to think abouf many
things.
“The young girls here can only
enjoy themselves for a few years,”
Ren tells her. ‘‘Then they’re sister-in
laws, and aunties with black teeth.”
And in the end, Li chooses to go
back to the city.
The cinematography is fantastic.
From the waters of China, the forest in
the south, to the simple beauty of Dai
girls bathing and the slaughter of a
bull during the festival, Xhang
doesn’t mind showing every part of
Dai life.
The actors deliver fine perform
ances, and the subtitles arc very good.
“Sacrificed Youth” shows at the
Sheldon Film Theater Wednesday at
1 p.m., Thursday at 7 p.m. and Friday
at 3 and 9 p.m.
Courtesy of Sheldon Film Theater
Scene from “Sacrificed Youth.’
Czech quartet to perform Saturday at Sheldon
The Talich String Quartet of Pra
gue, Czechoslovakia, will perform in
the Sheldon Art Gallery auditorium at
8 p.m. Saturday.
This is the second concert of the
Lincoln Friends of Chamber
Orchestra’s fall season.
Formed in 1964, the quartet was
chosen as the laureate of the European
Festivals Association in 1970. Since
1975, the group has been affiliated
with the Czech Philharmonic.
The quartet performs regularly in
major European cities and most of the
important European international
festivals. The group has also toured
the Near East, Far East and Australia.
Members are Petr Messiercur and
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Jan Kvapil, violins; Jan Talich, viola;
and Evzen Rattay, cello.
The Talich Quartet is noted for its
interpretations of the great composers
of its homeland — Smetana, Dvorak,
Suk, Martinu and Janacck.
The quartet will include “Quartet
No. 2 in D minor”, by Smetana,
“Lettres Iniimes,” by Janacek and
“Quartet No. 6” by Bartok.
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General Hospital’s Colton Shore
to speak with fans at city union
General Hospital’s Colton
Shore, a.k.a. Scott Thompson
Baker, will be in the Nebraska
Union Ballroom Oct. 29 at 8 p.m.
Fans will get a chance to talk
with Baker, sponsored by the Uni
versity Program Council Arts
Committee.
Aside from his role on the soap
opera, Baker has acted in
Minneapolis’s Tyrone Guthrie
Theater.
He said in a recent interview
with UPC that he would never dis
courage anyone from acting.
Baker got his start on the Star
Search television show. He won
the acting category and reigned 13
weeks as the undefeated cham
pion, and went on to win the
$100,000 grand championship.
Baker takes his job seriously, he
said.
“It’s a rare and powerful effect
to have on an audience by having
the opportunity to affect people
not just through words, but
through' movement as well,” he
said.
Tickets are $3.50 for Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
dents, and $5 for the general pub
lic. Tickets are available today at
a booth in the Nebraska Union,
and at the door.
Courtesy of Univaratty Program Council
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