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In addition to the battlefield, the soldier's performance after being captured was also a major test of his revolutionary will, in 1950, the opera "Steel Bones" co-written by Wu Zhaodi, Suri and Wu Yin was put on the screen by director Cheng Yin, which was the first film in New China to show the heroism and indomitability of PLA fighters after being captured.
Iron Warrior poster
"Iron Warrior" tells the story of how in the summer of 1946, the Kuomintang authorities gathered a large number of troops to attack the Liberated Areas. Zhang Zhijian, a platoon commander of a certain unit of the People's Liberation Army, was ordered to lead his troops to "clear the field of jianbi" and then block the attack on the high ground outside a certain town to cover the transfer of the main force. After five days and nights of bloody fighting, Zhang Zhijian and his soldiers ran out of ammunition and food, and their situation was very critical. During the breakout, Zhang Platoon Commander, Cooker Lao Wang, Correspondent Xiao Liu, and warrior Qi Degui were all wounded and captured.
In order to find the grain and military equipment buried in the PLA, the director of the enemy's political work department used a soft and hard method to interrogate Zhang Platoon Commander and three other people, but they were mighty and unyielding, but Qi Degui, who had an impure motive for joining the army, quickly defected to the enemy. The enemy asked the traitor Qi Degui to lure Lao Wang and Xiao Liu down, but to no avail. Lao Wang eventually died of his wounds; Xiao Liu failed to capture the gun, stabbed the enemy political work chief in the eye with a pen, and died heroically. Zhang Platoon Commander's indomitability deeply touched the enemy soldier Wei Jianji, and with his help, Zhang Platoon Commander was fortunate to escape and flee to the village to hide.
In order to capture The platoon leader Zhang, the enemy threatened the townspeople. Zhang Platoon Commander could not bear to burden the villagers, stepped forward, and was arrested again. The enemy made another plan and captured the mother of the platoon leader zhang to persuade him to surrender. However, Mother Zhang understood the great righteousness and encouraged her son to be loyal to the people, leaving the enemy helpless. Soon, the People's Liberation Army conquered the town, and Zhang Pai grew to survive. The leader awarded him the "steel bone and iron rib" pennant.
"Iron Warrior" shows the mighty and indomitable revolutionary fighters from a new perspective, which is undoubtedly an attempt and breakthrough for new Chinese films, coupled with the fact that this film starts from "writing people", vividly portrays the positive images of the righteous Zhang Platoon Leader, the calm and experienced Lao Wang, the witty and fearless Xiao Liu, etc., and also portrays Qi Degui, who is greedy for life and afraid of death but has a real motive, and the first enemy female secretary of the first "seducing" revolutionary fighter on the screen of new China, which makes the film sensational throughout the country as soon as it is released. It became the most remarkable revolutionary film of the time. After 1976, the film was listed as the first batch of "re-screening" films, once again earning a high box office.
Enemy Female Secretary "Seduction" Zhang Platoon Leader Enemy Female Secretary "Seduction" Zhang Platoon Leader
In fact, from the creative point of view, in addition to paying attention to the requirements of publicity, this film also has some reference and consideration in the film genre, because the "prisoner of war" film is also a regular genre in the international film world, and horizontal comparison, "Iron Warrior" is earlier than the 1957 David Lane's "Bridge on the River Kwai" and the 1959 Italian film "General Rovere", but the latter has a deeper significance in the tragic design of the characters.
Several of the main creators of this film, such as Wu Zhaodi, Suri, Cheng Yin, Zhang Ping, Lu Fei, etc., have been introduced earlier in this series, and will not be repeated here.
Du Defu, the actor who plays the cooker Lao Wang in this film, is actually an old revolutionary and old party member in the Yan'an period, and Du Defu, who graduated from the Lu Xun Art Institute in Yan'an, is the first generation of actors trained in New China, and his most well-known role is lao Hou Dazhang, the guerrilla who gave political lessons to the traitors in "Plain Guerrilla". In 1982, Dudev suddenly fainted while filming and was taken to the hospital for rescue, and in 1983, the veteran actor Dudev died at the age of 65.
Dudev in Guerrillas of the Plains
Sun Yu, who plays Xiao Liu in the film, was only 16 years old at the time, but had already participated in two operas, and was a small actor of the People's Liberation Army who was born into a working family. "Iron Warrior" is Sun Yu's film performance debut, after which he grew up with Changchun Film Studio, from actor to director, there are many works, including the 1982 co-directed with Wang Qimin based on Chen Rong's novel of the same name "Man to Middle Age", which won the Best Feature Film of the Third Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award and the Best Feature Film of the Sixth Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award. In 2014, director Sun Yu died of illness at the age of 80.
Sun Yu
Zhang Xiqi, who plays the traitor Qi Degui in the film, is also a veteran literary and artistic warrior in the Yan'an period, who participated in the Eighth Route Army and the People's Liberation Army, after the release of "Iron Warrior", he gradually turned to the drama world, wrote and directed a number of drama works, and later served as a director, deputy director and art director of Anhui Television, in 2010, Zhang Xiqi died at the age of 83.
Zhang Xiqi
There is also an actor who became widely known but also debuted on the screen, she is Hu Peng, who plays Zhang Mu in the film. Hu Peng, also from Yan'an, has been associated with the roles of "grandmother" and "old woman" since "Iron Warrior", in fact, she was only 34 years old when filming "Iron Warrior". Hu Peng died in 2004 at the age of 88.
Hu Peng
The enemy female secretary who appears in the film is one of the most impressive characters in this film, and she is played by He Gaoying, a Native of Sichuan. After the 1960s, He Gaoying returned to Sichuan to Chengdu Battle Flag Repertory Theatre as an actor until his retirement, and then devoted himself to poetry creation, which was quite successful.
He Gaoying
In the next issue, the film "Liu Hulan" is introduced.
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