With a unique perspective of the accompanying cameraman of Premier Zhou Enlai, the film tactfully tells the story that Premier Zhou went to the old revolutionary base area of Hebei Province at the beginning of the 1960s when our country suffered from the Great Chinese Feminine. He made in-depth research in Boyan commune of Handan District, work closely with the masses, followed up a clue and seized the culprit in four days and nights.
Production
Period detail that screams 'state-funded authenticity.'
Acting
Sun Weimin's Zhou: warm, tired, impossibly virtuous.
Director
Chen Li
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film carefully avoids naming the Great Leap Forward as the famine's cause, adhering to official Chinese historiography that still treats this period delicately.
The real Zhou Enlai's actual 1961 inspection tours were extensively documented for propaganda purposes; this film reconstructs one such performed investigation.
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