57 minutes
9/14/1983
History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the organisation of filmmaking under the post-war communist government; the impact of the Cultural Revolution; the work of Xie Jin.
Tony Rayns
as Narrator / Himself
Sun Yu
as Himself
Shen Fu
as Himself
Huang Shaofen
as Himself
Ruifang Zhang
as Herself
Daolin Sun
as Himself
Junxiang Zhang
as Himself
Shu Shi
as Himself
Da Shichang
as Himself
Wu Haiyan
as Herself
Xie Jin
as Himself
Sangchu Xu
as Himself
Wang Lingu
as Himself
Zhao Jing
as Herself
Xue Gong
as Herself