Bridge (1949)

Original title

桥

Directed by

Bin Wang

Genre

drama film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Workers and engineers build a bridge under difficult conditions during a war. The film celebrates their labor and the conversion of intellectuals to the Communist cause.

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What happens

Bridge (simplified Chinese: 桥; traditional Chinese: 橋; pinyin: Qiáo) (also known as The Bridge) is a 1949 Chinese war film made shortly after the Chinese Communist Revolution; as such, it is considered the first feature film completed after the founding of the People's Republic of China. As a film, Bridge set many of the themes that would dominate the Socialist cinema of post-1949 China, including the glorification of the worker and the conversion of the intellectual to Communism. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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