Remembering 1950

[Opens April 1 in theaters.] Awesome cinematography dominates Song Kunru's poignant, informative, moving, thought-provoking, insightful, fascinating, 98-minute, 2021 documentary that consists of archival battlefield film footage and photographs, Raid on the White Tiger Regiment opera (1972) film clip, and interview snippets with brave veterans of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, including scouts/operators Zhou Youchun (age 87) and Zhou Youchun (87), art troupe/art soldiers Ren Hongiu (87) and Tang Zhongxi (86), statistician Max Shixun (89), artillerymen Zhou Jicheng (89) and Li Weibo (89), medical officer Xue Yingie (94), scouts Bao Yuelu (89) and Yong Weitai (88), combat medic Wang Guansan (90), medical team aidman Guo Ruizheng (88), driver Wang Renshan (92), squad leader Tan Xuexian, guard Sun Deshan (89), pilot Na Qiming (91), secretary Liu Suqian (92), publicity specialist Xiong Chaoriu (88), company commander Bai Qinglin (94), and soldiers Tang Hongzhang (85), Lin Bingyuan, Yi Ruyuan (87), and Zhou Quandi (87), who entered North Korea in October 1950 to aid Korean soldiers against U.S. aggression and openly discuss the horrors of war and sacrifices that they endured during the conflict with many of the valiant soldier remains not being returned to their native China until 2014.
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