Purple Sunset

A Soviet Russian lady officer, a Chinese peasant and a Japanese schoolgirl must walk their way out of a forest toward the end of World War II, despite their mutual distrust of one another.

Cast

Fu Dalong

as 杨玉福

Chie Maeda

as 秋叶子

Anna Dzenilalova

as Nadja

王学伟

as 少佐

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