Ballet is a European classical dance, conceived in the Italian Renaissance, in the history of nearly four hundred years, great influence, spread widely, has now become a world-recognized form of artistic expression. War, on the other hand, is the highest form of contradiction and struggle, full of violence, casualties, and is the public enemy of peace. The film "Ballet in the Fire of War" skillfully combines ballet and war, two very different forms of expression, through the ballet love of the hero and heroine in the anti-Japanese flames, tells a poignant love affair that crosses national borders, exposes the ferocity and hypocrisy, stubbornness and perfidy of Japanese militarism, and shows the fighting friendship between the military and the people of China and Russia who share hardships and hardships and work hand in hand to resist fascist aggression.
Based on real historical events, more than 300 Japanese troops lurking in the jungle of the Border Town of Heilongjiang on September 12, 1945 refused to surrender, stubbornly resisted, bloodied local villagers, and attacked the Soviet Red Army. In the end, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Forces and the Soviet Red Army suppressed this Japanese army in one fell swoop. Because the battle took place on the 28th day after Japan announced its surrender, it was called the "last battle" that took place on the black land in the War of Resistance Against Japan. With this as the background, this film tells a story of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Forces leading the common people to fight against Japan with the Soviet Red Army in a small town on the northeast border.
In order to truly restore that period of lost history, this film was jointly created by Chinese and Russian artists, and the lineup is extremely strong. Director Dong Yachun, who first started with photography, filmed the films "Breaking Out of the Amazon" and "Shocking Waves", which won the Best Cinematography Award at the 22nd and 23rd Golden Rooster Awards respectively, and the TV series "China Expeditionary Force" directed by him won the Outstanding Director Award at the 28th China Television Drama Feitian Awards. The directorship is served by Nikita Mikhalkov, a Russian "national treasure" director known as "Steven Spielberg", who is good at managing images, narrating with excellent pictures, and his works are full of strong humanitarian concern. His film "Mongolian Spirit" won the 1991 Venice Golden Lion Award, the European Film Award for Best Picture, and the film "Scorching Sun" won the 1995 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The film co-stars Cao Shuci, Kaleskov Igor, Du Yuan, Chen Jin and a series of Chinese, Russian and Japanese actors. The heroine Cao Shuci is the main actor of the National Ballet of China and a national first-class actor, and her graceful dance posture and superb acting skills add a lot to the film. The male protagonist is the Russian actor Kareskov Igor, known as "Russian small fresh meat", and the film shows the rough beauty of Russia and the handsome atmosphere of Britain.
True restoration and grounding gas is a major feature of this film, just like the novel "Lin Hai Snow Field" and the movie "Wise Tiger Mountain" on the vast snow field, everywhere is covered with snow, dilapidated villages, old houses, old railway stations, people are wearing thick cotton jackets, cotton pants, wearing cotton shoes, hats, gloves. For the restoration of details is more rigorous as a textbook, the ice and snow covered on the train, the chopping of firewood in their own yard, the family eats and drinks porridge, eats nest heads, digs cellars to store cabbage for winter, in the first year, the family invites people to kill pigs, Chinese New Year's Eve eat dumplings at night, and put coins in the dumplings, and the people who eat it have good luck for many years..., which is completely in line with the local living habits of northeasterners.
A pocket watch with a ballet photo appears repeatedly in the film, and each appearance represents a different meaning. From the remembrance of relatives in front of the tombstone at the beginning, to the promise of love when the male and female protagonists are separated, to the bond of the reunion of mother and son for many years, to the reluctance of the male protagonist when he sacrifices, to the re-ringing of "Swan Lake" in front of the tombstone at the end of the film. An ordinary pocket watch carries the changes of history, witnesses a period of passionate years, and witnesses the bloom and bloom of beautiful ballet on the battlefield filled with smoke.