The Wedding Maidens(1990)

movie - first aired/released 1990-09-10 - 94 min - audience 7.0

Drama

Directed by Wang Jin

Five young girls in a remote mountain village each find themselves forced into unhappy marriages. Together, they find solace in an old legend, that a girl may hang herself before marriage and retain her purity, her soul turning into a white bird and soaring to the heavenly garden, where there is only beauty and peace.