Attacking Zhanggao Village
MovieTitle | 进攻张高村 |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 1, 2012 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Wang Hai'an |
Production country | China |
Production companies | Caochangdi Workstation |
Run time | 86 min. |
A documentary following the filmmaker, Wang Hai'an, who went back to his hometown of Zhanggao Cun, a rural village in Shandong Province. He interviewed the elders in his village who lived through the Great Famine during 1959- 1961. His main purpose was to gather the names of those who suffered and died during the famine and to ask the village to donate money for erecting a monument in their name, but the idea was rejected by the villagers