Zhu De & Agnes Smedley

分水岭

Decisive Engagement: The Liaoxi Shenyang Campaign

First part of the Decisive Engagement trilogy. Directed by Pingfen Li et al.

Decisive Engagement: Beiping-Tianjin Campaign

Winner of the Golden Rooster for Best Film in 1992

Friendship

Decisive Engagement: The Huai-hai Campaign

Winner of the Golden Rooster for Best Film in 1992

Xu Mao and His Daughters

Based on Zhou Keqin's excellent novel, Xu Mao and His Daughters weaves a story about the life and sufferings of Xu Mao, an aging peasant and his four daughters in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. They struggle to make ends meet since his wife's death. Preoccupied with worries, he loses touch with his maturing daughters. It takes the stubborn but kindly intervention of a woman making a governmental inspection tour to cause father and daughters to appreciate their loving family.

Anxious to Return

A wounded soldier of the Northeast Anti-Japanese forces is found and helped by a local girl. They fall in love, but the soldier wants to return to his team.

Ethnic Hui Detachment

Killer in the Dark

Our hero hunts a brutal murderer who killed several women.

Serfs

All of Qiangba's Tibetan ancestors have been serfs. Shortly after his birth, his parents are tortured to death by serf owner Wangjie. In his teens, he becomes a household serf of Wangjie, and passes an inhuman existence. Qiangba from then on refuses to speak, showing his resistance through silence. After the PLA enters Tibet, Qiangba and female serf Landuo leave to find the PLA. Landuo is rescued by the PLA, changing her fate, but Qiangba is caught and taken back. The serf owner's son, with support from foreign imperialists, foments armed rebellion. After the rebellion is smashed, Qiangba is rescued by the PLA, and the serfs are liberated at last. Qiangba is reunited with Landuo, and begins to speak again after many years of silence.

Sparkling Red Star

The story of Pan Dongzi, a teenager and son of a Communist army officer. When the father is called off, he leaves Dongzi a red star as a symbol of the cause. While he is away, a bourgeois landlord, Hu Hansan, returns to Dongzi's village where he exacts revenge upon the peasants who had forced him out

The Great Wall of the South-China Sea

十月的胜利

A 1,000 Li in a Day