The movie is based on Liu Zhenyun’s middle grade novel “WENHOU 1942”, which is based on the famine in Henan in 1942. Through the story of the experiences of a landlord and his long-time laborers and other people in the process of escaping from the famine in Henan in 1942, the movie brings the audience into a tragic human catastrophe, showing how people survive under extreme circumstances, and at the same time showing the various irrational and extreme behaviors that people may do in the face of hunger and fear. behavior in the face of hunger and fear.
Historically, during the famine caused by the drought in Henan Province in 1942, millions of poor people, with their wives and children, left their homes and fled to escape the famine, with a death toll of up to 3 million people.
2012 / China / Drama History War Disaster / Feng Xiaogang / Zhang Guo Li Zhang Mo
Plot Summary:
In 1942, the Anti-Japanese War and the Second World War were at a white-hot stage.
A prairie fire is raging, people are suffering, and natural and man-made disasters are spreading.
While the eyes of militarists and politicians are focused on the conquests and plundering of cities and towns, few people notice that a terrible drought is breaking out in the ancient central Henan province.
The film’s protagonist, Lao Dongjia (played by Zhang Guoli), is a cunning, mercenary and typical feudal landlord, but even so, he is unable to fight this unprecedented disaster, and is forced to flee the countryside, witnessing the deaths of his son, daughter-in-law, companion and other relatives.
His encounter is the epitome of the three million victims, the face of the suffering of this group of people, whether it is the high and mighty Chairman Chiang (Chen Daoming), or in-depth folk reporting on the truth of the disaster of the American reporter Bai Xiu De (Adrien Brody Adrien Brody), as well as at home and abroad, how can every one of them, how can from the immediate view of the human purgatory of the scene of sidelong glance.
Desperate and endless escape Can Road, the suffering of the Chinese nation’s ill-fated destiny a spot …… This movie is based on Liu Zhenyun’s novel “Warming up to 1942”.
