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Sun and Man (1980)
Directed by Peng Ning
Drama · 1h 50m
With the birth of New China, a husband-and-wife pair of Overseas Chinese painters resolve to return to the embrace of their motherland, and their child is born under the five-starred red flag. But these Overseas Chinese patriots are persecuted in various political campaigns and their daughter subject to discrimination from childhood. The male lead freezes to death as a fugitive and draws a giant question mark in the snow before dying. The daughter emigrates following the Cultural Revolution; when her relatives try to stop her, she says: "You love the motherland, but does the motherland love you?" Based on a script by Bai Hua, SUN AND MAN was completed in 1981 but permanently shelved following high-level criticism and a public campaign against its "anti-Party" character. The film is said to survive in the studio archive but has never been publicly screened. A Taiwanese adaptation of the script (with some modifications) was released in 1982 under the English title PORTRAIT OF A FANATIC.
Cast
Liu Wenzhi
Huang Meiying
Leng Mei
Crew
- Director
- Peng Ning
- Screenplay
- Hua Bai
Details
- Original title
- 太阳和人
- Release date
- 1980-01-01
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- ZH
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin
- Countries
- China
- Production
- 长春电影制片厂