General Information

Original Title

Noch' nad Kitaem

Author/Creator

Medvedkin, Alexander, director.

Language

English.

Published

Soviet Union, 1971.

Physical Description

VHS (59 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

This Soviet anti-China propaganda films is an extraordinary document from one of the Cold War's bitterest conflicts - between the Soviet Union and Communist China - this film spares no quarter in its indictment of Maoist evils and misrule, portraying the Maoists as the enemies of the Chinese people. Includes many remarkable sequences, drawn from Chinese, Polish, and Western as well as Soviet sources, illustrating the grandeur and folly of China's fallen Revolution. Notable scenes depict the early upheavals of rural land reform, the backyard steel furnace campaign of the Great Leap Forward; and the Cultural Revolution (including Mao's celebrated swim in the Yangtze River, surrounded by swimming phalanxes of banner-waving Red Guards).

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

Night over China

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0320	Available	-	-