The Eleventh Child (1998)
Restaurant owner Tang the 11th, learning his older brother, Tang the First is ill, returns to the his remote native village, long plagued by leprosy. Superstition holds that a cure can be obtained when a family of five sons and five daughters makes possible the death of a fish from the Lake of Heaven, since the leprosy remedy is in the flesh of this fish. It just so happens that Tang the 11th has five sons, four daughters, and a pregnant wife.
Director:
Dai Sijie
Writers:
Nadine Perront, Dai Sijie.
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Akihiro Nishida as Le onzième |
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Tapa Sudana as Le premier |
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Nguyen Thi My Chau as La femme du premier |
| Directing | Dai Sijie | Director |
| Camera | Guy Dufaux | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Jean-Marie Sénia | Music |
| Sound | Jean-Marie Sénia | Original Music Composer |
| Crew | Guy Dufaux | Cinematography |
| Editing | Marie Castro | Editor |
| Art | Christian Marti | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Christiane Fattori | Makeup Department Head |
| Production | Antoine Maron | Production Designer |
| Sound | Stéphane Briand | Scoring Mixer |
| Camera | Serge Grenier | Key Grip |
| Camera | Boris Roy | First Assistant Camera |
| Crew | Bruce Law | Stunt Coordinator |
| Sound | Hervé Buirette | Recording Supervision |
| Sound | André Cappello | Foley Recordist |
| Sound | Claude La Haye | Sound Engineer |
| Sound | Louis Piché | Boom Operator |
| Writing | Nadine Perront | Writer |
| Writing | Nadine Perront | Screenplay |
| Writing | Nadine Perront | Idea |
| Crew | Nadine Perront | Script |
| Writing | Nadine Perront | Story |
| Writing | Dai Sijie | Writer |
| Writing | Dai Sijie | Screenplay |
| Writing | Dai Sijie | Story |
| Writing | Dai Sijie | Idea |