The National Anthem (film)
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| Directed by | Wu Ziniu |
| Starring | He Zhengjun Chen Kun |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | ¥20,000,000[1] |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Guógē |
The National Anthem or Guoge (
composer Nie Er (played by Chen Kun in his first role). The film is noteworthy for being told from the point of view of Tian, who fell from favor during the Cultural Revolution before being posthumously rehabilitated in the late 1970s. The movie was released to coïncide with the 50th anniversary of the PRC's founding.[2]
The timing and subject matter mirror the 1959 Nie Er, a highly fictionalized version of the same events which did not even include Tian.
The film was directed by
RMB excellence-in-filmmaking prize at the Huabiao Awards.[3] It also won a special prize from the Golden Rooster Awards and best picture at the Hundred Flowers Awards.[3]
See also
- List of Chinese movies of 1999
- Nie Er, the 1959 film retelling the same story from Nie Er's point of view
References
- ^ a b Rosen, Stanley. "The Wolf at the Door: Hollywood and the Film Market in China" in Southern California and the World, p. 71. Praeger Publishers (Westport), 2002.
- Washington), 2007.
- ^ a b Zhang Yingjin. Chinese Nationalist Cinema, p. 286. Routledge (New York), 2005.
External links
- 《国歌》 at Hudong Baike(in Chinese)
- The National Anthem at IMDb
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