12 Feb 1975
So Absent-Minded
Based on a poem by Samuil Marshak about an incredibly absent-minded man from Leningrad.
Swallow Flying to the South
Spring 1976, 5-year-old Swallow is abandoned at a public boarding preschool in central Beijing. When the persimmons are ripe, Swallow masters how to cry, but doesn't forget how to fly.
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