The 400 Million

Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war production, foreign relief—and guerrilla fighting. Framing an ancient nation of “400 million,” it contrasts tradition with modernization and closes on the unresolved question of victory.

Réalisation

Joris Ivens

Scénario

Dudley Nichols

Scénario

Joris Ivens

Réalisation

John Fernhout

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07/03/1939

Langue originale

Anglais