Produced by Shandong Orange & Film & Television Media Co., Ltd., the 36-episode large-scale TV series "Caster" will premiere nationwide at 22:19 on November 6, 2021 at the CCTV-8 Channel Classic Theater, with two episodes broadcast daily.
According to Li Kai, the production director of the play and the operation director of Shandong Orange and Film and Television Media Co., Ltd., "Caster" is directed by Cheng Qian, Ding Yinnan as the artistic director, Han Wenwen, Chun Yu Shanshan, Zhang Zhengyang, Wang Quanyou, Li Mengnan, Pan Shiqi and other starring works, Li Youbin, Wang Bozhao, Zheng Xiaoning and other veteran actors friendship cameo of the main theme of the work. The drama takes the industrial development process as the main line, embodies patriotism, and integrates various elements such as inspirational life and emotional entanglement. It mainly tells that in the early years of the Republic of China, Murong Bai, an aspiring young man in Weixian County, Shandong Province, was obsessed with mechanical technology and founded the national industry - Taifeng Machinery Factory in order to assemble and produce the Chinese people's own diesel engines. With the youth and life of two generations, the Murong family has experienced a series of conflicts in the course of entrepreneurship, branches, factories, bombing factories, and donation factories, and has practiced "industry to save the country" throughout their lives, expressing patriotic enthusiasm and displaying the national spirit.
Highlights of this drama:
1. Original Chinese good story. Based on Dong Xingmei's novel "Half Yuanjun", the well-known screenwriter Cha Wenbai and his team were invited to devote a year to creating a little-known growth history of China's national industry.
2. Acura craftsman spirit. In the play, Murong Bai is the representative of the craftsmen of the big country, and in the historical background of the 1930s and 1940s, he shows the Chinese craftsmen's pursuit of technological excellence, the enthusiasm for the nation and the country, and the heart of the child.
3. Create a variety of character images: there are many scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants, and loyal and evil, and loyal and evil all appear.
4. Show rich plots: business wars, emotional wars, and spy wars are complete; emotions are intertwined and contradictions are sharp.
5. Excellent production: The main creative team carried forward the spirit of craftsmanship, filmed for 5 months, and moved to Shandong, Jiangsu, Beijing, Liaoning provinces and cities; post-production lasted half a year, repeated revision, excellence!
It is believed that the premiere of "Caster" on the CCTV-8 channel of the Central Radio and Television Corporation is bound to fill the gap in the understanding of China's national industry by some viewers, and cause heated discussions on topics such as "choosing one thing for a lifetime" and "working hard to rejuvenate the country".
