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When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks
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When the Bough Breaks

2013
Directed byJi Dan
2h 24m

Ji Dan’s documentary about the daughters of a dirt-poor family living among Beijing scrap heaps, and their ferocious determination to get an education, is exhilarating, heart breaking, life affirming, shocking, despairing and ecstatic, all at once.

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STATUSReleased
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7.0

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