Xie Tieli

Taking Tiger Mountain was the very first model film produced during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Set during the civil war in 1946, it follows a detachment of the People's Liberation Army in Mandchuria as they are fighting a group of bandits hiding in the mountains. Based on a novel from the 50s, Taking Tiger Mountain was first a revolutionary opera before being made into film by director Xie Tieli.

Adaptation of a lesser known to Western world, yet wildly popular Peking Opera developed during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Jiang Qing.

Toward the end of the Cultural Revolution, the ballet Red Detachment of Women was adapted to a Beijing opera.

An idealistic youth moves to the countryside in search of a purer, more honest society, but finds injustice even in his remote village.

In the winter of 1948, the Huaihai battlefield. The telephone operator Yuxiang (played by Huang Xiaolei) rescued the rural girl Yuxiang (played by Li Xiuming) who was about to hang herself during the mission. Yuxiang has nothing to do with her, and she is willing to accept her personally and tell her sufferings of being homeless.

Base on "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". an Chinese classic A love story between a young scholar and a spirit of a dead girl.

A revolutionary model opera that focuses on ferreting out class enemies: those who did not belong the hallowed ranks of the gongnongbing 工农兵, the workers-peasants-soldiers.

With the fishermen's life on the southeastern coast in the early 1960s as its background, the film depicts a group of militia women who work both as fisher women and fighters defending their homes and the motherland.

When Gu Tingting, a young worker in a silk factory in Suzhou, is suddenly notified by a court in Shanghai that she will inherit a large sum of money from her aunt as her adopted daughter, her cousin Feng files a lawsuit against her backed by a forgery. Judge Ping senses foul play, and meets with Tingting, who begins recounting her past.

In 1958, during Chiang Kai-shek’s threats to retake the mainland, the Kuomintang navy attacked Fujian Province’s coast. The landing ship “Dacheng” was sunk by our torpedo boats, and Captain Wu John led troops to an unnamed island. Naval political instructor Wang Yongzhi and others, who fell into the water after a collision, also drifted there. They launched a political offensive against the enemy, who, unaware of our capabilities, awaited rescue. Prisoner Sun Gui swam back to his comrades, witnessed the cook’s beating, and returned to our side. Wang Yongzhi, seeing the enemy’s wait for rescue, forced them to reveal themselves. The enemy tried a fake negotiation to delay time. At night, Cai Dage brought reinforcements, eliminating the enemy on the island and their rescue ship.

On his way to Mecca for his pilgrimage, a young Orphan goes to Beijing, where is starts to learn about the art of jade crafting.

About the way of life in the East, in China, during the months before spring. An early spring.