If I Have to Die 1000 Times - The Story of Taiwanese Left-Wing

If I Have to Die 1000 Times - The Story of Taiwanese Left-Wing

2007 · 55 min · Documentary

It seems quite outdated to talk about left-wingism and socialism in today's Taiwan. But through the story of Shi, we learn what classism, Marxism and White Terror had meant on the island. Aged 83 now, Shi recalls how his friends were arrested and killed by the government in 1946 simply because they had a different political belief...

Directed by Wang Yu-lin

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