Chung Kuo (Italy) / Cina
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Footage: 217min
Year: 1972
Invited to China by the Chinese government, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Antonioni made a documentary about new China which was fiercely condemned by the Chinese government for seeing the "wrong" China (just as Zabriskie Point was denounced for seeing the wrong America). Chung Kuo consists of three parts. The first part, taken around Beijing, includes kids at an elementary school; older sections of the city; a clinic where a Caesarean operation is performed, using acupuncture; and a cotton mill and its workers. The second part visits the Red Flag canal and a collective farm in Henan, as well as the old city of Suzhou. The final part shows the port and industries of Shanghai. The film and ends with a stage presentation by Chinese acrobats. We see clean streets, apparently happy and well-fed people, bright and beautiful children, an orderly and progressive society... Day-to-day life at every level is captured by the hand-held cameras.
這部拍攝於中國文革時期的紀錄片分為三個部分。第一部分是安東尼奧尼在北京對一些場景的捕捉。有著名的景點如天安門廣場、長城、 故宮、王府井，有參觀如小學課間活動、醫院的針灸生產、工廠的工人家庭生活、生產合作社的狀況等等，最後以一場木偶戲結束。第二 部分安東尼奧尼被安排去河南林縣參觀紅旗渠，但安東尼奧尼將大量的篇幅放在他們隨意地觀察他們所感興趣的中國人的面孔，隨後他們 又來到蘇州和南京，最後以南京某個小學的一場運動會的接力賽作為結束。第三部分是安東尼奧尼對上海的短暫觀察，從街景到中國共產 黨誕生地，從新建的居民樓到殖民地時期的滾地龍，從茶館到大工廠，從外灘到黃浦江上的船戶，最後以一場雜技表演結束。
Tags: 中國 中国 文革 文化大革命 安东尼奥尼 China Cultural Revolution Michelangelo Antonioni 1972 Chung Kuo Cina
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