It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the international school. She is 13; he is 12. Xiaoman is from Yanan, Mao's base after the long march; Chuchu had seen her father executed by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang. The youngsters fit in well and learn to speak Russian. A large group of students, including Chuchu, leave for summer camp in Byelorussia accompanied by their teacher, Miss Vera. Xiaoman remains behind. The Germans invade the Soviet Union but Moscow remains unoccupied. Xiaoman takes a job delivering condolence letters to soldiers' families. At one apartment, he finds a mother has died and her very young daughter, Nadia, has not realized it. The summer camp is occupied by Germans and Miss Vera is murdered. One of the Soviet boys, Carl, is half-German, and helps the others escape but they are quickly recaptured. Chuchu and several other students are sent by Gen. von Dietrich to work as servants at German headquarters in the Yakovliv Monastery. The general is also a medical doctor with a peculiar hobby, tattooing.
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Red Cherry was released on December 1, 1995.
Red Cherry was directed by Daying Ye.
Red Cherry has a runtime of 2 hr.
Red Cherry was produced by Daying Ye.
The key characters in Red Cherry are ChuChu (Guo Keyu), General Von Dietrich (Vladmill Nizmiroff), Luo Xiaoman (Xiaoling Xu).
Red Cherry is a Drama, War film.
Red Cherry has an audience rating of 10 out of 10.