One More Effort, Chinamen, if you want to be revolutionaries! (1977)

Original title

Chinois, encore un effort pour être révolutionnaires

Directed by

René Viénet

Genre

documentary film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 52m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary uses spliced archive footage to criticize Mao's leadership in China. It mixes historical clips with a sardonic tone borrowed from a Marquis de Sade pamphlet.

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What happens

Chinese People, One more effort, to be revolutionaries! (Chinois, encore un effort pour être révolutionnaires) a.k.a. Peking Duck Soup is a 1977 film by Situationist director René Viénet. Unlike his earlier films Can dialectics break bricks? and The Girls of Kamare, which "detourned" drama films, in this one, Viénet uses a great variety of sources (particularly archive footage of People's Republic of China leaders) to compose a political documentary sharply critical of Mao's legacy in China. The title is a reference to the pamphlet "Français, encore un effort si vous voulez être républicains" featured in Philosophy in the Bedroom of Marquis de Sade. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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