风雨里程

In 1959, in the Kazakh animal husbandry production team of Dongfeng Commune at the foot of Tianshan Mountain in Xinjiang, the members elected their captain – Ayigul, a Kazakh female Communist Party member who loves the party and the collective and dares to fight against all evil forces.

Adapted from a novel of the same title, this film depicts a young woman’s transformation from housewife to loyal Communist. This process is presented as “natural” – possessed of inherent logic rather than merely “incidental”. Hence, the film is really about Communist revolution that won over the hearts and minds of Chinese youth.

Four students in Shanghai have recently finished university. All are unemployed. Xu contemplates suicide but his friend Zhao talks him out of it. Zhao lives in a shabby room with just a flimsy wall of planks separating him from the room behind. Miss Yang, in town to take a factory job, moves in behind. Her nails into the wall knock Zhao's photos down. The unseen neighbours start playing tit for tat... Zhao gets a job as proofreader at a newspaper. He sees that pretty girl on the tram to work every day. He doesn't know her, but it's Miss Yang... Zhao is assigned to cover labour conditions for the paper. He is sent to a factory, the one where Miss Yang works...

A soldier finds his new role in the transition from war time to the construction era.

The sailors on a Kuomintang warship revolt, arrest their officers and defect to the Chinese People's Liberation Army.