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Drama · 2012Not Rated

The Henan province disaster was one of the darkest moments in 20th-century Chinese history – a humanitarian crisis first sparked by drought, then compounded by a combination of windstorms, government corruption, and a war with Japan. In the midst of the devastation, an American journalist (Adrian Brody) searches for answers, and slowly comes to understand that there may be a greater connection between these tragedies and his political theories than he once thought. Starring Brody, Zhang Guoli, and Tim Robbins, this tragic retelling of events is based on Liu Zhengyun's bestselling novel Remembering 1942. Director Feng Xiaogang follows up his blockbuster real-life disaster movie AFTERSHOCK with this unflinching portrayal of one of the darkest times in China's WWII history, resulting in a loss of at least three million people.

Starring

Timothy Yip Gam-Tim, Zhang Guoli, Jiang Wu, Han Sanping, Xu Fan, Zhang Mo, Kuo-Fu Chen, Zhang Hanyu, Albert Yeung, Chen Daoming, Jiping Zhao

Director

Feng Xiaogang

Producer

Peter Lam