White Deer Plain

About the show

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.

Starring

Zhang Jiayi

Bai Jiaxuan

He Bing

Lu Zilin

Qin Hailu

Xian Cao

Liu Peiqi

Sir Zhu

Li Hongtao

Lu San

Ge Zhijun

Lu Taiheng

Lei Jiayin

Lu Zhaopeng

Zhai Tianlin

Bai Xiaowen