White Deer Plain

Overview

Set in the eponymous White Deer Village in Shaanxi Province where the two most important families – Bai and Lu – and their sons have always lived together in peace. But the turmoil leads to a fierce struggle for land ownership. A young woman new to the village soon finds herself caught between the two camps. Director Liu Jin uses the story of these two families as a metaphor for the fate of the Chinese people as first Chinese war lords are overrun by Japanese invaders, then civil war follows hot on the heels of the Second World War and finally the victorious Maoists begin waving their red flags. The drama is based off the novel by Chen Zhong Shi.

Cast

Zhang Jiayi

白嘉轩

He Bing

鹿子霖

Qin Hailu

仙草

Liu Peiqi

朱先生

Lei Jiayin

鹿兆鹏

Zhai Tianlin

白孝文

Li Qin

田小娥

Ta Ji

黑娃

Wang Xiao

白孝武

Sun Yi

白灵