The course charted by Michelangelo Antonioni in this film presents unforgettable glimpses of one of the world's richest cultures. Although he visits familiar sights such as the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, the film's focus is fixed towards the people themselves. Across China, from major cities like Beijing and Shanghai, to Henan province, people struggle amidst poverty and hardship to sustain the collective revolutionary spirit that liberated them. The film is an indelible time capsule of the aftermath of Mao's Cultural Revolution, the defining event of Modern China.
The documentary was made at the behest of The People's Republic of China, who invited Antonioni and his small crew to spend two months filming the 'new' China emerging in the wake of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. The resulting three-and-a-half hour film, which led an angry Chairman Mao to brand Antonioni anti-China and anti-revolutionary, is a remarkable portrait of an enduringly complex, enigmatic and ancient civilisation in the midst of adapting to Communism.
2 x DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 208 minutes | 7.37 Gb + 7.91 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano
Subtitles: English, Francais, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Genre: Documentary
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