Visitors on the Icy Mountain

Name: Visitors on the Icy Mountain
Director: Zhao Xinshui
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Released: 1963
Cast: Dezhang Bai, En Hesen, Yuying Gu

1963 Drama Mystery Directed by Zhao Xinshui

About Visitors on the Icy Mountain

Zhao Xinshui's film is set among the Tajiks of Xinjiang. Travelers come to a remote post, and the guards do not take their story at face value. The score uses Tajik tunes, including Why Are the Flowers So Red, played on the rawap.

Cast & crew

Zhao Xinshui Director
Dezhang Bai
En Hesen
Yuying Gu

More about Visitors on the Icy Mountain

Zhao Xinshui directed it. Bai Xin wrote the script. Changchun Film Studio made it in 1963. Bai Dezhang, En Hesen, and Gu Yuying are billed.

Themes

Strangers at a border post
Tajik songs
A story the guards doubt
Xinjiang
Tajik
rawap
Zhao Xinshui
Why Are the Flowers So Red

Music

The songs draw on Tajik music. Why Are the Flowers So Red is played on the rawap.

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Wikimedia Commons (冰山上的来客 1963.webm)