Ma Zhitu is one of the filming characters of "Centennial Masters and Special Chapters".
On November 16, 2019, the launching ceremony of "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu" was held in Jinjiang, Chengdu. It took two years, and the film crew traveled thousands of miles to complete all the shooting. The documentary will air from 17 January 2022.
"Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu" 30-second promotional video
The mountains and rivers were shattered, and he threw himself into the war without hesitation, growing from a progressive youth to a brave and loyal underground revolutionary worker; Guotai Min'an, he recalled the past and worked tirelessly, from a revolutionary practitioner to a literary artist with wonderful pens and flowers, turning the legendary experience of the Zhengrong era into a literary work that jumped on the paper. Ma Zhitu's magnificent life spanned the history of China in the 20th century, and after a hundred years of great turmoil, great turning points and great development in China, what he saw, heard, thought and felt, and witnessed the extraordinary process of China's transformation from weak to strong.
Ma Zhitu joined the party in 1938, and as of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China in 2021, Ma Lao has 83 years of party experience. From January 17, 2022, the documentary "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu" will be launched on various David TV and new media platforms, showing Ma Lao's wonderful revolutionary life and profound literary achievements.
Broadcast on the Taiwan network
It is reported that from January 17, "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu" will be successively premiered on Sichuan Satellite TV, Yunnan Satellite TV, Guangxi Satellite TV, Guangdong Satellite TV, Zhongjiao Set, Hunan Golden Eagle Documentary Channel, Chongqing Satellite TV, Heilongjiang Satellite TV, Ningxia Satellite TV, Qinghai Satellite TV, Shaanxi Satellite TV, Beijing Science and Education, Shanxi Satellite TV, Old Story Channel, Hainan Satellite TV, Star Satellite TV, Xinjiang Satellite TV, Chongqing International Channel, etc., and will be launched simultaneously on Learning Power, People's Network, iQiyi, Tencent, Station B, and Sohu.
As a special chapter of "100 Years of Masters", "100 Years of Masters - Ma Zhitu" held a launching ceremony in Chengdu on November 16, 2019, which lasted for two years, and the film crew traveled thousands of miles to complete all the shooting. "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu" is divided into two episodes, each 30 minutes.
"Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu" is the trailer for the last episode
Trailer for the next episode of "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu"
On November 16, 2019, the leaders and guests jointly launched the launching ceremony of "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu"
Ma Lao attended the launching ceremony of "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu" and composed poems on the spot
An old ox makes a straight furrow
Who is Ma Zhitu? An "old revolutionary" who had been engaged in underground work for a long time during the war years, a people's writer with realistic themes who had been working tirelessly after liberation, and who was known as the "Five Elders of Shuzhong" with Ba Jin, Zhang Xiushu, Sha Ting, and Ai Wu, and a progressive practitioner who was unswerving even though he had lost his beloved wife in a dark struggle and parted with his family and friends.
Such a centenarian who has melted the revolutionary passion into sincere words, now penetrates time and space, still walks firmly in the calmness of the years, what kind of story does life have for him?
In September 2021, the film crew of "Centennial Masters - Ma Zhitu" interviewed Ma Lao
In 1938, in front of the bright and blazing party flag, the young party member Ma Qianmu solemnly swore an oath in front of the party flag, after which he changed his name to "Ma Zhitu", taking the meaning of "finding the right path, the old horse knows the way", and from then on embarked on a stormy journey of seeking up and down for the revolutionary cause. From the enlightenment of new and old education to the dream of industrial national salvation, from the outbreak of the "918 Incident" to the participation in the "129" student movement, from joining the "Secret Student Federation Group" to wading through mountains and waters and finally finding the party organization, faith is imperceptibly immersed in bone and blood.
In his novels, the stories of struggle staged every day make people read sadly -- the old third sister who waited in the field for three days and three nights without eating or drinking in order to inform him of his timely transfer; the peasant soldiers who went to the battlefield were happy from the bottom of their hearts although they lost their arms; on the way to preserve the revolutionary fire, Ma Zhitu was almost buried alive because he was not familiar with the place of life and could not connect with the local organization to clear the clues, and there were days and nights when the Japanese invading army frantically attacked and suppressed... The depictions in these smokes are like a suite of life trickling under Ma Zhitu's pen, and the words are like faces. His novels "The Old Third Sister", "Back", "The Little Traffic Officer" and the long "Qingjiang Zhuang Song" are all based on the revolutionary life of this period.
Immortal legend
Liang Bibo, the general director of "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu", is a professor at Zhejiang University of Media and Communications and a master tutor at Beijing Film Academy, and has produced nearly 200 TV documentaries for CCTV and other films, winning many national awards and 6 international awards. "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu" is directed by Hou Xuan, and the photography is Qiu Linkai.
Liang Bibo, the general director of "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu"
Hou Xuan, director of "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu"
How can the inner thoughts of such a revolutionary and writer be transformed into a visual presentation? In the words of Liang Bibo, "You have to enter his world and possess him on you in order to feel empathy." To this end, the film crew began a two-year journey.
The film crew filmed Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Kunming, Nanjing and other places, of which Hubei was the most important place in Ma Lao's revolutionary career. The film crew traveled through 8 counties in Hubei province, all the way to Chongqing, ma Lao's birthplace. Enshi is the place where Ma Zhitu and his wife Liu Huixin married, and it is also the place where his ex-wife and comrade-in-arms He Gongwei were killed by the Kuomintang. His love and hatred echoed here. In 1938, Ma Zhitu, who was sent to Enshi as the secretary of the Shibat Party Committee, married his lovers who were also engaged in underground work under Zhang Luo, an enthusiastic fellow countryman, and began the life course of fighting together. However, the good times did not last long, and the anti-communist upsurge of the Kuomintang soon swept in, his wife was arrested, his daughter was separated, and Ma Zhitu moved forward with great grief and burden. Hou Xuan, director of "A Hundred Years of Great Master - Ma Zhitu", said: "We filmed the place where Liu Huixin was imprisoned and executed and her cemetery in Enshi, where the heavens and the earth are still there, and the soul is eternal. Ma Lao's "Qingjiang Zhuang Song" tells the story of this real revolutionary experience. Looking at Tsukagami's departure from the grass, I was born in the era of peace, and I was shocked by the revolutionary enthusiasm brought by the faith of this generation. ”
He Gongwei and Liu Huixin Martyrs Cemetery
The film crew of "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu" took photos outside Hubei, and the picture showed the inscription on the stone stele of Ma Zhitu's "Qingjiang Zhuangge"
If it is said that the same life in the era of war is fate, then the unswerving "revolution" is the matchmaker of Ma Zhitu and his wife. From acquaintance to like-mindedness, to the arrest of his beloved wife and comrades-in-arms to the heroic sacrifice of his beloved wife and comrades-in-arms, and the loss of his beloved daughter for many years in the heroic struggle against the Kuomintang reactionaries, a "Magnificent Song of Qingjiang" wrote the hatred and bitter feelings of the homeland. To this day, in his old age, he looks back on the past sufferings and sacrifices, ideals and struggles, just like the old horse knows the way, and what has been precipitated is an immortal legend of a writer and a revolutionary.
"In the more than two years since the filming of this documentary, we have not had much contact with it due to the ongoing epidemic and the high level of the elderly, but his story and his spirit have been with us every day. Now the 108-year-old Ma Lao has announced the closure of his pen, but his spirit of "the desire of the heart of the revolution and the country, although he died nine times, he still has no regrets" is worth learning and remembering. Qiu Linkai, photographer of "A Hundred Years of Great Master - Ma Zhitu", said.
"Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu" schedule
"Centennial Masters" is China's first large-scale series of biographical documentaries focusing on the masters and masters who made outstanding contributions to Chinese civilization in the 20th century, and is jointly produced by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Central Radio and Television Corporation, the China Academy of Arts, the Central New Film Group, the China Literature and Art Foundation, and the Centennial Masters (Beijing) Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. In April 2021, the "Centennial Masters" project was included in the "Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Inheritance and Development Project" organized and implemented by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and was implemented in the sub-project "Chinese Culture Radio and Television Communication Project"; the "Centennial Masters" project was selected for two consecutive years in the "Record China" communication project of the Propaganda Department (State New Office); in 2020, it was included in the "14th Five-Year Plan" documentary key topic planning project of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, and the "Recording of the New Era" documentary quality project.
The film crew of "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu" interviewed Ma Zhitu himself
Interview with Ms. Wu Cuilan, Ma Lao's lost daughter, on May 17, 2021
Wang Meng was interviewed by Liang Bibo, the general director of "Centennial Master - Ma Zhitu"
Interview with Wen Lipeng, son of Mr. Wen Yiduo
Interview with Li Zhi, honorary chairman of the Sichuan Federation of Literary and Art Circles and advisor of ba jin literature college
Interview with Shi Zhanjun, editor-in-chief of People's Literature magazine
Interview with the chairman of the Sichuan Writers Association and the writer Alai
Qin Chuan is a scholar at the Academy of Literature of the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences
Zhuo Hui, deputy editor-in-chief of Sichuan Literature Publishing House, was interviewed by the film crew of "A Century-old Master - Ma Zhitu"
Ma Lao took a group photo with yang Jingdao, producer and chief planner of "Hundred Years of Master", and Zhu Danfeng, secretary of the party committee and chairman of Sichuan Xinhua Distribution Group
Producer | Hou Xuan
Art Editing | Magical conch
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The large-scale cultural project "Centennial Masters" is China's first large-scale series of biographical documentaries focusing on the masters and masters who made outstanding contributions to Chinese civilization in the 20th century, and is jointly produced by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Central Radio and Television Corporation, the China Academy of Arts, the Central New Film Group, the China Literature and Art Foundation, and the Centennial Masters (Beijing) Cultural Communication Co., Ltd.
"Centennial Masters" is the "Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Inheritance and Development Project" of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, the General Office of the State Council and the Central Propaganda Department, which has been selected for two consecutive years as the "Record China" communication project of the Propaganda Department (Information Office of the State Council), the key topic planning project of the "14th Five-Year Plan" documentary of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the key documentary celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, the "Recording the New Era" documentary boutique project and the key documentary project (2018), and the major theme main line publicity and key topic selection project of CCTV. It is also funded by the National Arts Fund, the China Literature and Art Foundation, the China Art and Culture Foundation, the Beijing Municipal Government Cultural Innovation and Development Fund, the Beijing Culture and Art Fund, the Beijing Radio and Television Network Audiovisual Development Fund, and the Beijing Xicheng District Cultural and Art Creation Support Special Fund. It has won 12 documentary awards.
From 2013 to 2017, the filming of 43 masters in the first season of "100 Years of Masters" has been completed, which is divided into art, calligraphy, Peking Opera, drama, music and literature. The filming of 57 masters in the second season of "100 Years of Masters" has been launched in 2018, adding science and technology, education, traditional Chinese studies, architecture, traditional Chinese medicine, opera and movies, and will present the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China with the documentary "100 Years, 100 Talents and 100 Episodes", "100 Masters Special Exhibition" and "100 Books Publishing".
The completed documentary "100 Years of Masters" has been broadcast on CCTV (one set, three sets, four sets, nine sets, ten sets, fifteen sets, discovery channels, international channels), China Education Television, provincial satellite television, overseas television stations and other 155 TV stations at home and abroad, which have been widely praised and repeatedly set a new high in the ratings of similar documentaries. "100 Years of Masters (International Edition)" is broadcast worldwide in 8 languages.
CCTV Market Research Co., Ltd. (CTR) in July 2020 According to the statistical results of CSM National Measuring Instrument, "Centennial Masters" reached a total of 10.2 billion people.
The series of books "100 Years of Masters" has been distributed to nearly 1,000 colleges and universities across the country for three consecutive years by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the Ministry of Finance as a "High Art entering the campus" study book.
"Centennial Masters" has become one of the most high-end phenomenon-level brands in the field of culture, and with its unique advantages, it has built an important platform for disseminating China's excellent traditional culture, interpreting and displaying cultural self-confidence, and practicing the core values of socialism.