Shanshan (film)

The protagonist, a Shanshan schoolgirl, a favorite of mothers and teachers, and therefore somewhat capricious and spoiled by attention, begins to realize that she is gradually losing to her classmate Xiaoting, and soon her single mother thrills her to marry the father of the same rival "Lin Zhentin, making them half-sisters.

Years pass, the sisters are gradually reconciling, although Shanshan does not miss the chance to act up and pout "in public". The point is not facilitated by the fact that both fall in love with the same classmate Yu Zhijiang.

Everything changes dramatically after Shanshan, who began to experience severe headaches and dizziness after a while, fainting on the street, gets to the clinic and learns the terrible news - she has a brain tumor that does not respond to surgery and even with medications will allow her extend life only for a short while. Despite the seemingly “convenient” opportunity to concentrate on himself the attention and care of the whole family for the rest of his life, a deadly disease unexpectedly causes Shanshan to grow up, albeit in his own way. Somehow managing to hide her illness from her relatives (not only the diagnosis, but also dizziness, numbness of hands and other symptoms that are increasingly manifesting), the girl refuses to disturb them, especially since her parents are expecting a child, hoping for the birth of a boy, the heir of the family name, what the grandfather of the family expects with particular impatience. Climbing the highest point in Hong Kong, Shanshan prays to live to this day.

Realizing that he will not be able to fulfill many of his dreams, Lin Shanshan with all the dying forces undertakes to help her sister in a relationship with a young man and joins her in a charity (in favor of disabled children) school production of the fragment “ Sleep in a Red Tower ”, playing his main tragic character is Lin Daiyu .

Perfectly playing the dying heroine, Shanshan again loses consciousness during an encore. Forced to reveal a secret to her sister, she asks her not to give it to her parents. After waiting for the birth of the child (girl), Shanshan in the family circle gives himself to relax and dies with a smile on his lips. Parents name the newborn in her honor ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} .

• Company: Shaw Brothers
• Producer: Shao Renlen
• Director: Ho Manhua
• Director: Ip Sam, Johnson Cao Zhuangsheng
• Composer: Van Fulin
• Grim: Fang Yuen
• Operator: Lam Kuokcheon
• Sound Recording: Wang Yonghua
• Installation: Jiang Xinglong
• Duration: 104 min.
• Film language: putonghua
• Premiere Date: October 16, 1967

One of the final episodes of the film is an internal school production of a fragment from the novel “ A Dream in a Red Terem ”, known as “Lin Daiyu burns a handkerchief” (a heroine abandoned by everyone except her personal maidservant, for the purpose of organizing a relatives of Jia Baoyu’s wedding with a false bride, burns before death everything that connected them, so that a young man who found out the truth does not have a single thing in memory of his beloved), in the style of huanmei ^[1] . Subsequently, in 1978, actress Li Jing starred in the film adaptation of this novel in the same style, staged at its own film studio Jin Hanem and Ivy Lin Po , but in the role of not Dayui, but her "rival" Xue Baochai ^[5] .

14th Asia Pacific Film Festival (1967)

• Prize for the best film ^[1]

7th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (1969)

• Incentive prize for dramatic feature films (“second degree” / nomination / shortlist for the prize for the best film)
• Best Sound Prize - Wang Yonghua ^[6]

• Shanshan on the Internet Movie Database
• Susanna ( Chinese) on the Hong Kong Movie Database