Text/Sun Haifan
This is the second feature film shot by the Northeast Film Studio, and the director is 32-year-old Cheng Yin.
In June 1949, Cheng Yin, who had served as the chief of the Propaganda Section of the Political Department of the Lüliang Military Region and the Political Department of the Second Column of the Northwest Field Army in Jinzhong, and later studied in the Northwest Film Study Team and the Northeast Film Studio, wrote and directed the feature film "Back to His Own Team" after filming his first documentary "Northeast Nursery School", which was his feature film debut.
Poster of "Back to Your Own Team"
Cheng Yin had done the work of prisoner education and transformation when he was in the army, and when filming this film, the liberation war had entered the end, but the northwest, southwest, and south China had not yet been liberated, so the film that used a more vivid and vivid feature film to tell the transformation and surrender of the Kuomintang soldiers to the People's Liberation Army was obviously of strong practical significance.
Famous director Cheng Yin
Therefore, inadvertently, Cheng Yin's "Back to Your Own Team" has become a unique or even unique film in the history of Chinese cinema, because it is a film shot by the Communist Film Factory with the father and son of "Jiang Bandit" as the protagonists.
Promotional poster for the release of the movie that year
The story of the film is not complicated, it tells that during the Liberation War, the home of Wu Dagang, a soldier of the Chiang Kai-shek Army, was looted by the Chiang Kai-shek Army, and Wu Dagang's father was also severely beaten by the Chiang Kai-shek Army. When the People's Liberation Army besieged Wucheng, the instructors carried out propaganda and education on Wu Dagang's father, which deeply touched Wu's father, so he went to the city to persuade his son, and together with his son, encouraged other soldiers of the Jiang Army who were forced to become soldiers to surrender. During the battle, Wu Dagang joined forces with other Chiang Kai-shek soldiers, seized the company commander of chiang kai-shek, who often bullied them, and surrendered to the PLA.
Film stills (Suri as Jiang Bing Company Commander)
Objectively speaking, today's film is simple, naïve and rough in terms of choreography and technology, but just from the silhouette of the first shot of the troops marching, it can be seen that director Chengyin already has the potential to shoot war blockbusters in the future, in fact, there are many rather cinematic expressions in the film, although they are not fully mature in control, but they show that Chengyin's directing career has already made a good start.
To this day, not many people can remember this movie, but a group of actors who played roles in the film at that time have become the pillars of the Chinese film industry, and many of their films are among the red classics.
Stills from the film (these fighters are real PLA fighters)
Therefore, in a sense, this film is also the cradle of Chinese film directors, and the main actors in it have all embarked on the position of director after filming this film, just like Chen Kaige's "Yellow Land" more than 30 years later, Zhang Yimou and He Qun in the crew have later become famous directors.
The actor who played the protagonist wu father in the film was called Wu Zhaoti, and later when he was a director, his name was Wu Zhaodi, he filmed many Chinese film masterpieces such as "Heroes and Children", "Sisters on Ice" and so on, in 1955, he co-directed "Guerrillas in the Plains", and his collaborators also played a role in this "Back to Their Own Team", that is, the number one villain in it, Jiang Jun, the commander of the company, this actor is called Suri.
The famous director Wu Zhaodi played Wu Father in the film
Director Suri's later films are well-known, "Guerrilla in the Plains", "Your Young Man in Our Village", "Liu Sanjie", but in this film, he usually has a kind face, but in this film, he plays a vicious, fierce and vicious villain, which is also the first facialized and conceptual villain in the history of New Chinese cinema.
The famous director Suri plays the company commander of Jiang Jun in the play
In "Back to Your Own Team", there is an impressive PLA soldier Wang Dahe, played by Wang Bing, who later directed a famous war film "Battle shanghai" in 1959.
The famous director Wang Bing plays the warrior Wang Dahe in the play
Even if the works he directed later were not very famous, Lin Ke, the actor of this film, Wu Dagang, also made a series of entertainment films such as "How Beautiful is the Night", "Harbin Murder", "The Road Wide" after the reform and opening up, becoming the first batch of commercial directors in The New Era of China.
The next issue introduces the third film "Radiant" shot by the Northeast Film Studio.
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