2012 Chinese disaster history film, directed by Feng Xiaogang, adapted from Liu Zhenyun's novel "Wen Gu 1942", starring Zhang Guoguo, Chen Daoming, Li Xuejian, Zhang Hanyu, Feng Yuanzheng, Xu Fan, Fan Wei, Zhang Mo, Adrian Browdy, Wang Ziwen, Zhang Shaohua.
In 1942, Henan suffered a severe drought, the grain grain harvest was not harvested, more than 10 million people were affected, and the problem of eating was difficult to solve. Fan Dianyuan, a rich man in Yanjin, had a well-to-do family and a full stock, because the disaster victims were rampant, he was worried that his family was robbed and could not sleep peacefully, and found that the Shaodong family intended to molest the long-term worker daughter-in-law huazhi who came to borrow grain, and he also resigned himself to it, so that then it was the thing he was most afraid of, and the disaster victims came to grab grain.
The villagers were forced to be helpless, armed in order to make a living to rob the landlords, the old owner's family first slowed down the army, and quietly let the long worker bolt go to the county to report to the officials to ask for soldiers, and the young owner was ready to fight with these displaced people. However, the pillar encountered Japanese soldiers in the middle of the road and returned to the original road, so that the old owner's plan failed and angered the victims, the two sides began to fight, the old owner was knocked unconscious, the young owner was pierced, and the home was also robbed by the victims and burned to the ground.
Li Peiji had just taken up his post as chairman of the Henan Provincial Government, and when he came to Yanjin to be warmly received, the county magistrate requested more grain for disaster relief, and when he learned that Li Peiji had come to raise military food, he became speechless.
The old owner took the surplus grain and his family to embark on the road to escape the wilderness, in the words of the old owner, to hide from the disaster, and the blind deer explained to the little daughter that the escape was to go outside to find food, and their common destination was to go all the way west to Shaanxi.
Inside the U.S. Embassy in Chongqing, Time Magazine reporter Bai Xiude approached Zhang Lisheng, secretary general of the Executive Yuan, to inquire about the disaster in Henan, and the other side explained that people fled the famine mainly to avoid war, so they first needed to defeat the Japanese and then provide disaster relief.
Li Peiji went to Jiang Dingwen, commander of the First Theater stationed in Henan, and asked him to give him a 30 million jin reduction in military grain in sympathy for the people's feelings.
The National Government has set up a circuit court to follow the fleeing contingent and temporarily restrict public order, and the county government's brother-in-law and wife have all become temporary judges.
Li Peiji went to Chongqing to find the chairman of the committee to ask for food for the victims of Henan, but he could not open his mouth because he was busy.
On the forty-third day of the escape, the blind deer family began to eat the bark, grinding the firewood into powder to eat, the old mother was seriously ill with fever, the blind deer secretly took away the sleeping daughter at night and prepared to sell some grain, because the flower branches were found and robbed back, the old owner saw that he was pitiful and gave him a bowl of millet.
In the Battle of Northern Henan, the Japanese army suffered eight hundred casualties and the Nationalist army suffered five thousand casualties, and Jiang Dingwen suddenly received a telegram from Chiang Kai-shek asking him to withdraw from Henan. The retreating army mixed with the fleeing victims, and the Japanese bombers dropped bombs indiscriminately, instantly flying with blood and flesh, and corpses were everywhere. The old owner escaped the bombardment of the Japanese army, but could not resist the hard robbery of the nationalist army, all the belongings were confiscated and requisitioned, and the daughter was almost robbed, and they became a real escape.
Bai Xiude ventured to the disaster area to understand the disaster situation, and was shocked by the reality of hunger and wild dogs eating people. At night, the old owner called the bolt and the blind deer to steal Bai Xiude's donkey, and Bai Xiude had a hard time protecting the camera, but the blind deer was killed by the brutal deserters of the nationalist army for looking for the donkey to grab the meat.
The diplomat organized the people in Chongqing to teach them to welcome foreign guests, and Bai Xiude, who wanted to help the victims of the disaster, came back to find Soong Ching-ling, hoping to meet Chiang Kai-shek through her and tell him the real disaster situation so that the government could come forward to provide relief.
The daughter-in-law of the old owner gave birth to a male baby on the road, and the owner named it Liucheng, and endured the pain of cutting the black cat who loved to kill his daughter to make up for his daughter-in-law's milk, but still did not save her life.
The Dagong Press published an article on the disaster situation, and Chiang Kai-shek said that he was demagogic and demanded that the publication be suspended for reflection, but after meeting with Bai Xiude and seeing the photo, he showed great concern for the people, and when he left, he was furious with his subordinates. When the Japanese army bombed Chongqing, the people still warmly bid farewell to Chiang Kai-shek, and since the photos had been published in Time Magazine, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the suspension of the Shanxi Campaign and the transportation of some military grain to the disaster areas in Henan.
Henan finally received 80 million catties of government grain for disaster relief, but the various government departments in Henan had major differences over distribution, and Li Peiji could not control the situation, and suddenly received news that Jiang Dingwen had taken away the two directors of the Grain Administration Department and the Finance Department asking for grain to be exchanged for people, and he embezzled three million catties of grain for gold bars in exchange. The discerning secretary secretly exchanged half a million pounds of gold bars for him, saying that it was used to dredge up and down the relationship.
On the ninety-third day of the escape, the victims arrived in Luoyang, but the Luoyang government did not allow the victims to enter the city in order to strictly prevent traitors and rectify the city's appearance, and the government designated the disaster areas as northern Henan and southern Henan, and if they wanted to become the disaster victims to receive relief grain, they had to walk hundreds of miles to northern Henan, which was ridiculous!
Quartermasters of the Luoyang Military Region used disaster relief grain to sell to disaster victims at low prices to make the country rich. The daughter of the old owner took the initiative to be picked up by the merchant as a prostitute in order to survive, and Huazhi was willing to marry the unwilling bolt pillar again for the sake of two children, and then asked him to take care of the child as a stepfather, and she sold herself for four liters of millet for the bolt and the child.
Chiang Kai-shek went around using his connections to collect donations and deal with corruption, robbed corrupt officials to show the victims, and also used a train to transport the victims to Shaanxi in batches, the bolt pillar picked up the train but accidentally lost two children, they were squeezed out at night, the bolt pillar jumped off the train to find but forgot to take the millet that the flower branch had bought for his life, he was captured by the Japanese army, because he did not want to use his daughter's windmill for steamed buns to anger the Japanese officers and killed, and the old horse was afraid to cook for the Japanese.
The train went to Shaanxi, but was stopped by officers and soldiers at Tongguan and asked to return the same way, the victims jumped off the train and were also shot back by the soldiers, but the owner lay down but left cheng to death. Now that only one person is left in the family, he has returned to the east to be closer to home than he wants to die against the flow of people fleeing the wilderness.
The Japanese army provided food to the victims, let them fight for their lives, let the Chinese fight themselves, so with 60,000 troops, they defeated more than 300,000 nationalist troops and quickly occupied a large area of land in Henan.
Chiang Kai-shek asked Li Peiji how many people had starved to death in Henan, Li Peiji replied to the government's statistics of 1,062 people, Chiang Kai-shek asked the actual situation again, got an answer of about three million people, and then went to the church to mourn for the compatriots who died, and also regretted his inaction.