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This category encompasses films about and set in the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a violent sociopolitical purge movement in China.Launched by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), its stated goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought (known outside China as ...
The action goes from the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. The film, like many examples of fiction and film in the 1970s and 1980s, demonstrates the difficulties of the common Chinese, but ends when conditions are seemingly improving in the 1980s. [3]
Morning Sun (Chinese: 八九点钟的太阳; pinyin: Bā Jiǔ Diǎn Zhōng de Tàiyáng) is a 2003 documentary film by Carma Hinton about the Cultural Revolution in China.. The film uses archival and propaganda footage from the era as well as interviews with Red Guard participants and victims to explore the events and effects of the Cultural Revolution.
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (Chinese: 天浴) is a 1998 Chinese drama film directed by Joan Chen in her directorial debut, who co-wrote the screenplay with Geling Yan.Based on Yan's 1981 short story "Celestial Bath", the film is set in the 1970s during the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside Movement in People's Republic of China. [2]
Farewell My Concubine is a 1993 Chinese-Hong Kong epic historical drama film directed by Chen Kaige, starring Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi.Adapted for the screen by Lu Wei, based on the novel by Lilian Lee, the film is set in politically tumultuous 20th-century China, from the early days of the Republic of China to the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution.
The film is set in the early 1970s in Beijing, during the Cultural Revolution.It is told from the perspective of Ma Xiaojun, a teenage boy nicknamed "Monkey" (played by Xia Yu, some of Monkey's experiences mimic director Jiang's during the Revolution), [2] Monkey and his friends are free to roam the streets of Beijing day and night because the local school system is non-functional and the ...
The Laud for the Chinese Revolution (simplified Chinese: 中国革命之歌; traditional Chinese: 中國革命之歌; pinyin: zhōngguó gémìng zhī gē) is a 1984 Chinese film directed by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Movie Studio (namely the August First Film Studio), depicts the history of China, particularly under the leadership of ...
Though I Am Gone (Chinese: 我虽死去; pinyin: Wǒ suī sǐ qù) is a 2007 Chinese documentary film directed, written, and edited by Hu Jie.The film centers on Bian Zhongyun, [1] [2] the vice principal of the Girls Middle School attached to Beijing Normal University, [3] who was beaten to death by her students on August 5, 1966 during the Red August of Chinese Cultural Revolution. [4]