The 400 Million

(1939)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 8 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1939

Runtime: 54 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Joris Ivens, John Fernhout

Cast: Fredric March, Morris Carnovsky, Сидни Люмет, Robert Q. Lewis, Alfred Ryder, Adelaide Bean, Lai Sek, Madame Chiang

Plot

Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war production, foreign relief—and guerrilla fighting. Framing an ancient nation of “400 million,” it contrasts tradition with modernization and closes on the unresolved question of victory.