Yu Shizhi

Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese womens’ liberationist and martyred revolutionary.

An old teahouse in Beijing serves as the stage for a drama that unfolds over several tumultuous decades of modern Chinese history, from the waning days of the Qing dynasty to the eve of the People's Republic.

Drama written by Su Shuyangin in 1978. The feature film adaptation was produced by Beijing Film Studio in 1980. Fang Lingxuan, a veteran Chinese medicine doctor, devotes himself to the research of new drugs for coronary heart disease and receives the enthusiastic support of Premier Zhou Enlai. But the Ministry of Health, controlled by the "Gang of Four," uses Fang's son-in-law to obstruct the research. Just as Fang and his colleagues finally succeed in producing a new drug, Premier Zhou dies. Grief turns into strength, and despite persecution, Fang works hard.

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In 1918, shortly after the Soviet Socialist Revolution in October, the Red Army soldier Savelyev went to Moscow and was assassinated by counter-revolutionaries at a small station. The sons Vasya and Misha have just lost their mothers, and now they have lost their fathers, and they have no choice but to wander into Moscow. Lenin and Dzerzhinsky met the two children and took them in and took care of them.

Adapted from a novel of the same title, this film depicts a young woman’s transformation from housewife to loyal Communist. This process is presented as “natural” – possessed of inherent logic rather than merely “incidental”. Hence, the film is really about Communist revolution that won over the hearts and minds of Chinese youth.

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