Yan Han

Directed by Ban Lu.

Min zhu qing nian jin xing qu

Long Xu Gou

In a mountain hamlet in eastern China, a poor woman faces trial after trial. Sold into marriage as a child, she is left a young widow and enslaved by her mother-in-law, who sells her to a poor peasant. Her second marriage turns out to be happy until fate takes away her husband and son. Now seen as a bearer of bad luck, she becomes a social outcast.

土地

红色背篓

Financial and political pressures bankrupt a Chinese store owner.

矿灯

患难之交

锡城的故事

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.

A family is persecuted by I-Kuan Tao, a feudal religious organization.

New Heroes and Heroines

Militiaman in Lü Liang Shan actively organize to fight enemies.

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