Country: China
Year: 1987
Duration:
In 1935, during the Long March, Mao Zedong and Zhang Guotao disagreed over which strategy to follow. Zhang Guotao was chief of the zone controlled by the Fourth Communist Liberation Army. Instead of going towards Shaanxi, a part of this arrny tried to establish themselves in the west on the border of Sichuan province and Tibet. This area was a 3000-meter-high, cold, and inaccessible plateau. The lack of food, clothing, and medicine as well as the hostility of the local peoples - ethnic minorities who had long been subject to Chinese domination - made it impossible to set up a base in this area. The Fourth Army had no choice but to join their comrades at Shaanxi in order to take up the resistance against the Japanese, as Mao's strategy had called for. Under these circumstances eight women from the women's wing of the Fourth Army decide to try to rejoin their companions, even though they had already lost contact with the rest of the army. Their deep ideal of struggle for the country and for their own liberation spurs them to go on despite their ordeals and the looming presence of death. They cross mountains and hills and finally leave the "prairie". One morning at dawn they find the army column on the march.
Biography
film director
Liu Miaomiao
Liu Miaomiao was born in the northwestern Chinese city of Yinchuan. In 1978, when she was only sixteen, she was admitted to the Beijing Film Institute. This same class was to become known as "the Fifth Generation Directors". She graduated in 1982 and was assigned to Xiaoxiang Studio in Changsha, Hunan province. She worked there for several years as assistant director, She then directed the TV film, Liangge ren de xiaodian (A Shop for Two), and her first feature film, Yuanyang yishi (Anecdotes from the Ocean). She left Xiaoxiang Studio in 1992. She went to the small town of Guyuan to shoot Zazuizi (Big Mouth), produced by Beijing Children's Studio. At present, she is the director of the Ningxia Provincial Film Studio.
FILMOGRAFIA
Matisheng sui (1987), Quanji shou (1988), Zazuizi (1992).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Liu Miaomiao.
Screenplay: Jiang Qitao.
Director of photography: Zhang Li, Yan Yuanzhao.
Art director: Yang Li.
Editor: Wang Xiaoming.
Music: Wen Zhongjia.
Sound: Huang Siye.
Cast and characters: Bianba Danzi (Chen Zikun), Yang Qiong (Feng Guizhen), Zhang Yimei (Shaozhi), Xu Zhiqun (Juan Fen), Yang Lei.
Production company: Studi Cinematografici "Xiaoxiang", 165 Laogong East Road, Changsha, China.
Foreign sales agent: China Film Export-Import Corporation, 25 Xinwai Street, 100010 Beijing, China.
Screenplay: Jiang Qitao.
Director of photography: Zhang Li, Yan Yuanzhao.
Art director: Yang Li.
Editor: Wang Xiaoming.
Music: Wen Zhongjia.
Sound: Huang Siye.
Cast and characters: Bianba Danzi (Chen Zikun), Yang Qiong (Feng Guizhen), Zhang Yimei (Shaozhi), Xu Zhiqun (Juan Fen), Yang Lei.
Production company: Studi Cinematografici "Xiaoxiang", 165 Laogong East Road, Changsha, China.
Foreign sales agent: China Film Export-Import Corporation, 25 Xinwai Street, 100010 Beijing, China.
