# The Hidden Soldier (2017)

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**Original title**: *烽火芳菲*
**Runtime**: 97 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance, History, War
**Directed by**: Bille August
**Written by**: Greg Latter
**Starring**: Liu Yifei, Emile Hirsch, Fangcong Li, Kevin Yan, Yu Shaoqun, Vincent Riotta

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

So this is the film where wartime peril doubles as home renovation porn.  
After his plane goes down in 1941 China, an American bomber pilot is taken in by a widowed village woman whose hospitality extends to full structural fortification.  
It plays like a survival story interrupted by IKEA catalogs, but somehow keeps a straight face until the end.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

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