The 400 Million

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.

Regie

Joris Ivens

Drehbuch

Dudley Nichols

Drehbuch

Joris Ivens

Regie

John Fernhout

Status

Veröffentlicht

Veröffentlichung

07/03/1939

Originalsprache

Englisch