Epic war film blasts records
The Battle at Lake Changjin wows audience with tale of heroism by volunteer army, Xu Fan reports.
Wang Shuzeng, the film's history consultant and a renowned military-themed novelist, says the battle has a very important strategic meaning to guard the national dignity of Chinese and ensure China's peaceful development in the following decades.
Wang, who had spent seven years to write a book about the war, says as he researched a lot of archival material, he was shocked to discover that most of the CPV soldiers didn't have adequate thick winter clothing and carried frozen potatoes as food.
"But their rivals were the ace troops in the US army who were equipped with world-class weapons and had plenty of clothing and quilts to resist the bitter cold. Chinese soldiers faced off their enemies with the spirit of fighting to death, which has always been revered, and we now have a film in honor of them," says Wang.
The film is also scheduled to be released in North America and Europe, with the overseas distribution work in progress.
