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- 2011
- Not Rated
- China Lion Film Distribution
- 2 h 20 m
- 2011
- Not Rated
- China Lion Film Distribution
- 2 h 20 m
Summary A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Directed By: Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang
Written By: Zhe Dong, Jung Li Guong, Jianxin Huang
- 2011
- Not Rated
- China Lion Film Distribution
- 2 h 20 m
- 2011
- Not Rated
- China Lion Film Distribution
- 2 h 20 m
Beginning of the Great Revival
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Summary A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Directed By: Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang
Written By: Zhe Dong, Jung Li Guong, Jianxin Huang
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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60% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
29
20% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
20% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
60% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
A Chinese propaganda film without the heavy dogma and dour treatment that would have been expected a generation ago, Beginning of the Great Revival is a slick and lavish historical epic charting the 1921 formation of the Chinese Communist Party.
A worthy history lesson on the founding of the Chinese Communist Party with only partially entertaining aspects.
Beginning of the Great Revival is muddled, all right, but it's the helter-skelter speed at which it ticks off names and incidents, both in hopelessly confused action and on-screen text, that seems nearly unprecedented.
There hasn't been such an egregiously self-congratulating piece of Communist propaganda since, arguably, the peak of '60s Soviet musicals, but Revival is so repetitive and po-faced that there's no kitsch value to be had.
It demonstrates that mainstream Chinese cinema can be as guilty of self-indulgent overstatement as anything out of the West.
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Production Company
China Film Co., Ltd.,
Anhui Film Group,
Beijing Hualu Baina Film & TV,
Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio, Film and Television,
Beijing Municipal Committees of the CPPCC,
Beijing Poly-bona Film Distribution Company,
Beijing Xinbaoyuan Movie & TV Investment,
Bojie Media,
China Movie Channel,
DMG Entertainment,
Emperor Classic Films,
Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation,
Liaoning North Media Group,
Media Asia Films,
Shanghai Film Studios,
Shanghai Joy Pictures,
Sil-Metropole Organisation,
Xi'an Qujiang Dreamgarden Pictures,
Zoke Culture Group
Release Date Jun 24, 2011
Duration 2 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
Awards
Hundred Flowers Awards
• 4 Nominations
Huabiao Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Chinese Young Generation Film Forum
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
