Life is Miracle

Casts : Aaron Kwok, Zhang Ziyi, Pu Cunxin, Wang Baoqiang, Jiang Wenli, Li Danyang

Award-winning Chinese director also cinematographer for famed Chinese directors Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, Gu Changwei, is back with his new film after four years hiatus, “Life is a Miracle” also known as “Til Death Do Us Part”. Stars Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Hong Kong actor-singer Aaron Kwok (Storm Raiders), the film set in a small Chinese village, where an illicit trade in human blood has resulted in the spread of HIV.

The story follows two fellow AIDS sufferers, played by Zhang and Kwok, who fall in love with each other.
In many rural areas of China during the 1990s, particularly in the province of Henan, hundreds of thousands of farmers were infected with HIV when they donated blood to state-run programs that used contaminated needles. China’s AIDS villages drew the attention of the world film community in 2007 when Ruby Yang’s “The Blood of Yingzhou District” won the Oscar for Best Short Subject Documentary. Critical of the government, the film has never been allowed wide release in China.