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Chung Kuo: China is a italien film of genre Documentary directed by Michelangelo Antonioni released in USA on 26 december 1972 with Giuseppe Rinaldi
Chung Kuo: China (1972)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 26 december 1972
Length 3h40
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
OriginItalie
Genres Documentary
Rating75%
Chung Kuo, Cina (original title) is a 1972 Italian documentary directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It focuses primarily on the lives of contemporary working class Chinese people.
Synopsis
In 1972, during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, Michelangelo Antonioni was invited by the People's Republic of China to direct a documentary about New China. Only permitted to visit certain parts of the country, the director traveled with his crew for eight weeks in Beijing, Nanjing, Suzhou, Shanghai, and Henan province. The result was a three and a half hour long film, divided into three parts. Mao and his wife Jiang Qing disliked it so much that Antonioni was consequently charged with being anti-Chinese as well as counterrevolutionary. The film was finally shown at Beijing's Cinema Institute 30 years later.Actors
Giuseppe Rinaldi
(Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
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