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Cong nu li dao jiang jun (1979)

Cong nu li dao jiang jun poster
Original title
从奴隶到将军
Directed by
Wang Yan
Genre
war drama
Country
People's Republic of China
Runtime
2h 42m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Chinese man escapes slavery by enlisting in the army in 1915. He rises through the ranks and becomes a general. The film is a biography based on the lives of several People's Liberation Army officers.

inspiringhistoricalpatrioticdetermineddramaticbiographicalwar-tornserious

What happens

Cong nu li dao jiang jun (oversatt til norsk: «Fra slave til general») er et kinesisk krigsdrama fra 1979 regissert av Wang Yan. Filmen handler om kineseren Luo Xiao som unnslipper sin slavetilværelse ved å verve seg til den kinesiske hær i 1915. Han vokser i gradene og ender til slutt opp som general. Filmen er biografisk i sin stil og det tas utgangspunkt i livene til flere offiserer i Folkets frigjøringshær. Hovedrollen spilles av Yang Zaibao. Den ble tildelt prisen for fremragende film ved Huabiao Awards (delt med flere filmer). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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