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LastDodo number
924831
Area
DVD / Video / Blu-ray
Item title
The Blue Kite
Original title
Lan feng zheng
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Release year of movie
1993
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Playing time (min.)
138
Number of discs / tapes
1
Article number packaging
876
Barcode / EAN / UPC packaging
8717249474401
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The Hundred Flowers Campaign, proclaimed by Mao, inviting Chinese citizens to criticize the party in 1957 turns out to be a trap. Anyone who has the guts to do so is taken to camps as an enemy. This is also the case with Tietou's father, who is appointed by a colleague as 'ally'. Tietou never sees his father again. This is a banned film in China. Tietou's mother remarries the remorse-tormented colleague, who dies prematurely under the influence of The Great Leap Forward. Finally, when she enters into a marriage of convenience with a high-ranking party official, it does not bring happiness either. He is arrested as a class enemy in 1966 by the Red Guards. The Blue Kite, a moving indictment of 1950s and 1960s Chinese rule, shows how a Chinese family from Beijing is at the mercy of Mao's political directives and purges. In China, the film brought director Tian Zhuangzhuang a film ban and The Blue Kite was not allowed to be shown.

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