About the movie: year - Awards /: Cannes Film Festival4 / Golden Globe1 / 1994 / 2 hours 5 min.drama / war / To Live: A family saga set in China over three decades, from the 1940s to the 1960s. Fu Gui is a young man from a respectable family who has a bright future and a good heritage. But the guy is an avid gambler and squanders his fortune and one day he just loses his house. Now the family has nowhere to live. To earn money, a rich guy gets a job in a private shadow theater. And soon a civil war begins and Fu Gui is drawn into the struggle between the Nationalists and the Communists.