The True Story of Ah Q (film)
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The True Story of Ah Q is a 1981
Chinese
drama film
directed by Fan Cen. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival
. It is based on the short story of the same name
by author Lu Xun
.
1981 in film
-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....
Chinese
Cinema of China
The Chinese-language cinema has three distinct historical threads: Cinema of Hong Kong, Cinema of China, and Cinema of Taiwan. Since 1949 the cinema of mainland China has operated under restrictions imposed by the Communist Party of China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television and...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Fan Cen. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival
1982 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :*Giorgio Strehler *Jean-Jacques Annaud *Suso Cecchi d'Amico *Geraldine Chaplin *Gabriel García Márquez *Florian Hopf *Sidney Lumet *Mrinal Sen...
. It is based on the short story of the same name
The True Story of Ah Q
The True Story of Ah Q , is an episodic novella written by Lu Xun, first published as a serial between December 4, 1921 and February 12, 1922. It was later placed in his first short story collection Call to Arms in 1923 and is the longest of the stories in the collection...
by author Lu Xun
Lu Xun
Lu Xun or Lu Hsün , was the pen name of Zhou Shuren , one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua as well as classical Chinese...
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Cast
- Bao Fumin - Master Zhao's son
- Chen Xi - Candidate Bai
- Jin Yikang - The Fake Foreign Devil
- Li Wei
- Ni Yilan - Zou Qi Sao
- Wang Suya
- Yan ShunkaiYan ShunkaiYan Shunkai is a Chinese comedian, actor and film director.Yan enrolled in the Central Academy of Drama in 1959, graduating in 1963....
- A Qiu - Zhang Youyun - The Little Nun