Gao Zheng

Nie Er (1962)

Shot in gorgeous color, this fascinating communist flipside to fifties Hollywood music biopics chronicles the life and tragic early death of Nie Er, the composer of the PRC's national anthem. ...

The Opium Wars (1959)

China 1839. Because the British imports of opium into Southern China are creating such widespread medical and economic problems, the weak Manchu emperor Tao Kuang is forced to take action that precipitates the 'Opium War'. ...

Cowboy Joining the Army (1958)

The story of fifteen-year-old shepherd Gu Xiao, who ran away from his landlord to the mountains. There he met scouts from the People's Liberation Army and helped them find the right path. The shepherd then took part in an important combat operation. For hi ...

Struggle in the Desert (1957)

A People's Liberation Army division in Xinjiang in 1951 aids in a water conservancy project. ...

A Great Start (1955)

An episode from the life of a metallurgical plant collective. Lu Zhong-kui, an advanced worker appointed as head of the smelting shop, initiates the re-equipment of the open-hearth furnace. The plant director and some specialists warn him that the furnace, ...

Cut the Evil’s Claw (1954)

The Winter of Three Hairs (1949)

San mao (3 hairs) was a very popular Chinese comic strip first published in 1935-37, continued from 1948 into the 1990s, about a young orphan boy struggling with life in Shanghai. ...

The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes (1948)

This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhiqing can barely support his wife and children, and his situation is worsened by the unexpected arrival of his mother, brother and sister-in-law. ...

The Spring River Flows East (1947)

1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a medic group for the Chinese Army. The other son, Zhangmin goes into hiding to protect his family. The focu ...

Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon (1947)

A college girl and a musician go to the front of the anti-Japanese war and fall in love. ...

Lan guang shan guo zhi hou (1979)

Set in the summer of 1976, people and stories in the disaster relief after a violent earthquake. ...

Doctor Bethune (1965)

Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune assists the Communists during the anti-Japanese struggle. ...

Brother and Sister Prospect for Treasure (1963)

Three members of the Young Pioneers search for the source of a rare piece of ore. ...