Shanghai Youth
Release Year:
2015
Story:
As a special generation born in New China, the 100 thousand educated youth from Shanghai has been through enormous hardship during their support activity in Xinjiang from 1963 to 1966.Because of the specific historical conditions and background, they have been strikingly marked with the stamps of the times and had to struggle with efforts to understand the relationship between themselves and the nation.
As a special generation born in New China, the 100 thousand educated youth from Shanghai has been through enormous hardship during their support activity in Xinjiang from 1963 to 1966.Because of the specific historical conditions and background, they have been strikingly marked with the stamps of the times and had to struggle with efforts to understand the relationship between themselves and the nation.
Casts & Crews:
Wu Meng
Directors
Gao Zipeng
Directors
Runtime:
510
minutes
Language:
Douban:
Douban (in Chinese): https://movie.douban.com/subject/26258761/
Director‘s Statement:
We pay attention to history, not for history itself, but to see how a period of history affects the lives of a group of people.
This determines the way the film cuts into history by recording the present.
We tried to make this film to let people realize that these educated youth groups, representing the most successful generation of the Communist Party, have been fighting against the government for decades, and they are complicated and ambiguous with this country. Qing relationship.
In this relationship, the so-called historical issues are only appearances, but their real core is emotional injury, an emotional trauma abandoned by the state.
In this regard, what the film is trying to share with the audience may not be the obscured history, but through that history, the viewer can establish an emotional connection with the viewer.
In order to shoot this eight-and-a-half-hour documentary, Zhao Chuan, Wu Meng, and Gao Zipeng initiated and established an imaging practice group - “Shanghai—Fudajie”, whose purpose is to explore the possibility of folk video.
Since 2009, they have facilitated the early shooting in Shanghai. During this period, they also went to Xinjiang twice to shoot. The entire shooting cycle lasted four years.
Thereafter, after two years of post-editing production, the film was finally completed in April 2015.
This determines the way the film cuts into history by recording the present.
We tried to make this film to let people realize that these educated youth groups, representing the most successful generation of the Communist Party, have been fighting against the government for decades, and they are complicated and ambiguous with this country. Qing relationship.
In this relationship, the so-called historical issues are only appearances, but their real core is emotional injury, an emotional trauma abandoned by the state.
In this regard, what the film is trying to share with the audience may not be the obscured history, but through that history, the viewer can establish an emotional connection with the viewer.
In order to shoot this eight-and-a-half-hour documentary, Zhao Chuan, Wu Meng, and Gao Zipeng initiated and established an imaging practice group - “Shanghai—Fudajie”, whose purpose is to explore the possibility of folk video.
Since 2009, they have facilitated the early shooting in Shanghai. During this period, they also went to Xinjiang twice to shoot. The entire shooting cycle lasted four years.
Thereafter, after two years of post-editing production, the film was finally completed in April 2015.
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lee at 2023-01-07
元鹤鸣 at 2022-10-25
hy at 2022-06-04
Singa at 2022-03-02
上海知青这一党教育最成功的一代、对中共对社会主义最忠诚的一代,却不得不为了被剥夺的公平正义,选择与国家机器和权力意志进行一场毫无希望的抗争。 八个半小时的影像确实很长,但看下来觉得要讲清楚这个复杂的“历史遗留问题”也确实需要这样的体量,不过要表达主旨的话只需要引用丁惠民老师的几句金句就可以了:“要为正义而斗争”“公平正义比阳光更重要”“要把权力关进制度的笼子里”“(党国)不能当历史的老赖”
galois at 2021-07-13
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Casts & Crews
Wu Meng
Director
Gao Zipeng
Director
Story:
As a special generation born in New China, the 100 thousand educated youth
from Shanghai has been through enormous hardship during their support activity in
Xinjiang from 1963 to 1966.Because of the specific historical conditions and
background, they have been strikingly marked with the stamps of the times and had
to struggle with efforts to understand the relationship between themselves and the
nation.