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Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war production, foreign relief—and guerrilla fighting. Framing an ancient nation of “400 million,” it contrasts tradition with modernization and closes on the unresolved question of victory.Read moreLess
Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war production, foreign relief—and guerrilla fighting. Framing an ancient nation of “400 million,” it contrasts tradition with modernization and closes on the unresolved question of victory.
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Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war production, foreign relief—and guerrilla fighting. Framing an ancient nation of “400 million,” it contrasts tradition with modernization and closes on the unresolved question of victory.
Cast & crew
Fredric MarchNarration (voice)
Morris CarnovskyAdditional Voice (voice)
Sidney LumetAdditional Voice (voice)
Robert Q. LewisAdditional Voice (voice)
Alfred RyderAdditional Voice (voice)Explore the crew
- Director
- Joris Ivens
- Editor
- Helen van Dongen
- Writer
- Dudley Nichols
- Writer
- Joris Ivens
- Director of Photography
- John Fernhout
- Director of Photography
- Robert Capa
- Director
- John Fernhout
- Director of Photography
- Joris Ivens