秋菊打官司

中国西北某个小山村里，村妇秋菊（巩俐 饰）的丈夫万庆来（刘佩琦 饰）在与村长争执时被对方踢伤下体无法再干农活，只能整日躺在床上，对此村长没表一态。秋菊气不过，找村长理论不得对方理会，为讨一口气，她一纸诉状将村长告到了乡政府。乡政府李公安耐心调解一番后，村长答应赔偿秋菊家的经济损 失，却是把钞票直接扔在地上拒不道歉。 　　村长的举动虽蛮横无理，众人还是觉得事情可以就此划上句号，唯独秋菊被激怒，立誓要讨个说法，于是她挺着个大肚子和妹妹来到县城，开始了漫漫告状路。A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away from the countryside the viewer is also provided with a look at the changing Chinese society through the verite camera used in most scenes.