Yi jiu si er
China, 2012
Mandarin with English and Czech subtitles
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Starring: Guoli Zhang, Daoming Chen, Adrien Brody, Tim Robbins, Wei Fan
Distributor: Huayi Brothers
Leading Chinese hitmaker Feng Xiaogang, the director of movies such as Assembly (2007) or Aftershock (2010), further elaborates yet another combination of historical epic spectacles and emotional melodramas. Based on true events, it tells the story about a famine that broke out in China’s Henan province during the winter of 1942.