The 400 Million
1939 · 54 min · Documentary
Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war production, foreign relief—and guerrilla fighting. Framing an ancient nation of “400 million,” it contrasts tradition with modernization and closes on the unresolved question of victory.
- Directors
- Joris Ivens, John Fernhout
- Writers
- Dudley Nichols, Joris Ivens
- Released
- March 7, 1939
- Language
- English
Cast
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