Fatherland (1980)
- Original title
- 大地恩情
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Length
- 3 seasons, 70 episodes
- Rating
- 8.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A classic Hong Kong TV series set in rural Guangdong province during the late Qing dynasty and early Republic era. It follows the struggles of the Yang family, a peasant household, as they face hardship, migration to Macau, and one member being sold as a laborer abroad. The story shows the impact of historical events like the May Fourth Movement on ordinary villagers.
historicalnostalgicsweepingmelodramaticearnestslow-pacedpoignantgrounded
What happens
《大地恩情》（英語：Fatherland）是香港麗的電視（即亞洲電視前身）1980年播映的經典電視劇（三部曲、共七十集）。當年其收視率不逊無綫電視劇集《輪流傳》（六比四），導致《輪流傳》仅播放15集就被腰斬。由於策劃此劇的蕭若元仍經常在他經營的網絡頻道提及，故此事至今仍為香港電視歷史上的热门话题。本劇也奠定多位藝員的地位，如劉志榮、岳華等等。 《大地恩情》以清末民初廣東省的農村作為背景，刻劃農民楊家的困苦生活；年輕一代受五四運動的衝擊而引出的遭遇，楊家在民初時期南遷澳門的生活（並至澳門多個景點取景），楊九斤被「賣豬仔」到金山的故事（並到加拿大取景），可說是一部描寫中國近代南方農民典型生活的歷史劇。 本劇在拍攝期間原命名為「血淚中華」和「根」，及後才易名《大地恩情》，本劇故事策劃之一蕭若元曾表示，劇集本來沒有規劃結局，甚至可以寫至文化大革命，而他則希望將故事延續至1949年中華人民共和國成立為止。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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