10 minutes of Mao's revolution that'll wreck your timeline.
Editing
Jagged cuts turn state footage into cinematic indictment.
Direction
Knoop weaponizes Mao's own image against him.
Director
Walter Knoop
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Knoop was part of the German 'other cinema' movement that treated archival footage as found object art, not history lesson.
Made during West Germany's Red Army Faction era, the film's ambivalent gaze at Maoism spoke directly to radicalized young Germans romanticizing revolution.
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