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- 2011
- Not Rated
- 2 h 20 m
- 2011
- Not Rated
- 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
- 2 h 20 m
- 2011
- Not Rated
- 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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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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20% Mixed
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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
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 Film Group Corporation (CFGC),
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
