Back to 1942 ( Yi jiu si er )

Back to 1942 (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Yi jiu si er
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Multi-lingual ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Multi-lingual ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
140 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
China ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Xiaogang Feng

Written By:
Zhenyun Liu

Actors:
Guoli Zhang ..... Master Fan Dianyuan
Hanyu Zhang ..... Brother Sim
Wei Fan ..... Lao Ma
Yuanzheng Feng ..... Xia Lu
Fan Xu ..... Hua Zhi
Daoming Chen ..... Chiang Kai-shek
Xuejian Li ..... Li Peiji
Jingyi Yao ..... Lingdang
Jiale Peng ..... Liubao
Qian Li ..... Master Fan's Daughter-in-Law
Huifang Yuan ..... Master Fan's Wife
Shaohua Zhang ..... Xia Lu's Mother
Ziwen Wang ..... Xing Xing
Mo Zhang ..... Shuan Zhu
Yi Zhao ..... Master Fan's Son
Shu Zhang ..... Dong Jiayao
Xiaojie Tian ..... Officer
Lan Ke ..... Soong May-ling
Guoqiang Zhang ..... Guo Jiquao
Zhen Yu ..... Jiang Dingwen
Morning Chang ..... Chang / Tao-fan
Yongjian Lin ..... County Magistrate
Tim Robbins ..... Bishop Megan
Adrien Brody ..... Theodore Harold White
Yihong Duan ..... Chen Bulei
Nathaniel Boyd ..... American Embassy Translator
Chun Du ..... Zhang Fang's mother
Zhong Lü ..... Secretary Han
Zhenyu Qiao ..... T. V. Soong (aka Soong Tse-ven)
Alec Su ..... Train station owner
Guangyu Xu ..... Orphan girl
Jiahui Yang ..... Refugee
Alfred Hsing

Synopsis:

A famine with multiple contributing factors and devastating effects during the Second Sino-Japanese war is chronicled from the official perspective of reporters, generals, politicians and real families whose lives were forever altered by drastic measures they were forced to take in order to survive. Alternately ignoring the dire nature of the famine and its subsequent exodus of millions of people from the Hunen province, and minimizing its devastation to the outside world, the Chinese Nationalist government of the time is one which seems to be over burdened by ongoing war efforts and corruption in the distribution of relief supplies. Policy and private life are worlds apart in stopping the devastation shown through the portrayals of those who lived to tell the tale and their accounts of those who were not so lucky, of whom there were many (3 million.) This is a true story based upon Liu Zhenyun's novel 'Remembering 1942,' Zhenyun himself is the descendant of a survivor of the 1942 famine and his family story is poignantly portrayed--showing heroism, self sacrifice, terrible misfortune and ultimate survival of the lucky few.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 27 May, 2020.