This is a film that should not be forgotten by the world
In the winter of 1942, Kou invaded Henan, and Henan displaced 30 million people due to drought.
Lao Fan, a landlord in a small mountain village in Yanjin, Henan Province, was killed in chaos because the victims were robbing grain, and his family was burned, and the victims made a big move to eat in order to kill people, and finally their family was destroyed, so Lao Fan had to lead his whole family to embark on the road of escaping from the wilderness to make a living!
On the other side of the story, the county government is entertaining the newly appointed Chairman of Henan, Li Peiji, and the county magistrate hopes to send some relief grain, but Li Peiji is here to raise military food this time, and the scene was once embarrassing.
On the first day of the escape, Lao Fan took the whole family out to take refuge The daughter-in-law who was pregnant with Rokka, the daughter Star, and the crush Star, were tied up, and they drove the carriage with food and joined the fleeing team!
On the way, I met a family of blind deer who were long-term workers, and the two families wanted to go together, so that they could take care of each other
Old Fan's daughter said she didn't want to flee the wilderness together. In order to stabilize his daughter, Lao Fan explained that we are not fleeing the wilderness or hiding from disasters, and we can come back after a while
On the ninth day of fleeing the famine, Li Peiji found the commander of the theater hoping to reduce the military food for the sake of the disaster, but the commander said that the people were still alive when the people died, the country was dead when the soldiers died, and if the two had to starve to death, they could only be the victims of the disaster, and Li Peiji fell into deep meditation!
On the 31st day, the blind deer family had eaten the last bite of millet, and the millions of victims were in the same situation as the blind deer family, and there was almost no surplus food!
Li Peiji found Chiang Kai-shek to report on the situation, but he did not speak yet. The secretary next to him began to report on the international situation, Li Peiji listened like a man on his back, each of which was bigger than Henan's affairs, and when he reached his lips, he held back his breath, and Chiang Kai-shek asked him, "Is henan's affair serious?"
At night, the US embassy was brightly lit and magnificent, and Time Magazine reporter Bai Xiude inquired about the disaster in Henan, but government officials were hiding it, in order to find out the real situation. Sneaking into Henan and seeing corpses everywhere, he was shocked and rode on a donkey to continue chasing the team of disaster victims
On the 43rd day of fleeing the wilderness, the blind deer family has been starving for more than ten days, and can only grind the bark into powder and water to fill the hunger The old mother fell ill, the blind deer had no way to exchange her daughter for some grain, but the wife Huazhi shouted with her The old mother struggled to get up and said If it was for me, I immediately hanged myself, old Fan couldn't see it, and brought a bowl of millet! To see is to see the hungry people around you! It can only be said that it is borrowed!
At this time, there was the sound of gunfire in the distance, and Lao Fan said that he was looking forward to winning the battle, and after winning the battle, we could go home, but the commander of the military region received an order to evacuate Henan Hundreds of thousands of nationalist troops retreated without a fight, the army retreated together among the victims, and the long line became the best target of the Japanese bombers, and the shells fell like raindrops, and the ground suddenly turned into a hell on earth, severed limbs and broken arms wailed in pain, and the remnants of the retreating soldiers had no restraint and wantonly grabbed grain and robbed women
Old Fan's carriage and grain were robbed, his mother died, and a disaster shelter that had been planned became a real escape.
Bai Xiude finally caught up with the team of the victims, and what he saw was unbearable, and the corpses of the skin and bones on the side of the road were eaten by wild dogs at will! Bai Xiude recorded everything with the camera in his hand, but Old Fan noticed Bai Xiude's donkey, and at night, the hungry old Fan took Bai Xiude's donkey with three people and stole the biscuits, and accidentally the donkey ran away, and the blind deer went to look for it alone, and found that it had been killed by the remnants of the soldiers
Go up to the theory, but they were slapped into the pot by a shovel, so they died, old Fan they searched for several days and did not find the blind deer, the man was gone, the flower branch was grief-stricken, and had no choice but to continue on the road
Then the Japanese bombers attacked again! Against the long line of desert escapes, it was another frenzied strafing! Bai Xiude shot into the air in anger, and a few days later, the national government officials who were enthusiastic about him before Bai Xiude returned to Chongqing, but they could not avoid it.
On the 73rd day of the escape, the pillar called the star to the hillside, took out two biscuits and let the star kiss him, and after kissing him, he wanted to slap the star further. At this time, Hua Zhi ran to snatch the biscuits and said that one of his men's lives was worth two biscuits, at this time, lao Fan's daughter-in-law gave birth to a boy, but the daughter-in-law was hungry for a long time and there was no milk at all, so old Fan had to kill xingxing's cat to boil soup, and then lao Fan asked for forgiveness like a star, and xingxing calmly said that I also wanted to drink.
On the other hand, when Bai Xiude saw Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek said lightly that cannibalism would not happen in China, and it was not until Bai Xiude took out his photograph that Chiang Kai-shek said that the government would definitely handle it properly.
On the 85th day of fleeing the famine, after the military grain entered Henan, Li Peiji held a meeting to study the grain allocation plan. Subordinate officials each had their own calculations Li Peiji was angry and helpless, and the commander of the military region who was eyeing this batch of grain had no choice but to send 3 million catties of grain.
The fleeing team arrived at Luoyang City! But they were blocked out of the city by the defenders! The gatekeeper officer said! The disaster area is in northern Henan and southern Henan! Victims are not allowed to enter! The victims and defenders were deadlocked outside the city, at this time! Old Fan's wife also lost her breath!
At this time, Luoyang was recruiting female workers by the garment factory! Just young beautiful women! What's going on is self-evident! However, the people who came to apply for the recruitment still lined up in a long line, and xingxing said to Lao Fan at this time! Sell me, more than 40 days ago he took grain to feed the cat, but now he sold himself for food, and his former pride is gone at this moment, holding his own 5 liters of millet! Tell the father that you should be without me, this daughter After the stars left, the pillar pulled old Fan heartache and said! Didn't you say let him be my wife? Old Fan cried bitterly, who doesn't want him to follow you but you will starve to death.
At this time, the flower branch stood up! Say I'll be your wife so that the pillar can have a daughter-in-law before starvation! Chinese New Year's Eve that night! The two worshiped heaven and earth under the witness of Old Fan! Behind it are fireworks celebrating the New Year in the city, and the outside of the city is full of laughter and celebration, and Hanabi says Do you know why I married you? Because you have a wife you can sell, sell me you and your children can live,
Day 2 After changing her last of her better cotton pants to the pillar, Hana branch looked at her daughter! Tell the pillar to sell women, don't sell children, dry grass this parting is a farewell, the government arranged a train to Shaanxi, Lao Fan and The pillar in order to keep the grain from selling women and selling their daughters, pickpocketed the train at night and took a train for one night after dawn. But I found that I didn't know when The child of the flower branch had been squeezed off the train, and the pillar remembered the entrustment of the flower branch before leaving! Without hesitation, he jumped off the train to look for the child
After 106 days of fleeing the wilderness, the train finally arrived at Tongguan but was stopped by the local officer and ordered the train to return the same way, in order to survive, the victims jumped off the train and tried to rush the card, but the officers and soldiers pointed their machine guns at their compatriots, and Lao Fan protected the children with his body. After getting up, I found that because I was too nervous, the child was smothered by himself, and Old Fan's heart was like a knife in pain.
Chiang Kai-shek asked Li Peiji how many people died in Henan, and Li Peiji said that the government counted 1,062 people, but the actual death toll was about 3 million, and Chairman Chiang Kai-shek fell into deep contemplation!
At the end of the story, the blind deer is caught by the Japanese and refuses to give in, and is pierced in the throat
And the old Fan, who had lost everything, went back against the flow of people, and he had no worries! Just want to die closer to home, pick up a little girl with the same disease on the road, and walk in the direction of home, old and young, and the whole film ends here.