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.
Top Cast
Fredric March as Narration (voice)
Morris Carnovsky as Additional Voice (voice)
Sidney Lumet as Additional Voice (voice)
Robert Q. Lewis as Additional Voice (voice)
Alfred Ryder as Additional Voice (voice)
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