The old European-style buildings, unique customs and customs, and beautiful scenery with four distinct seasons have made Harbin a natural "film and television base" for domestic drama crews to come to shoot. The unique charm of the city has made Harbin a filming location for more and more film and television creators. Central Avenue, Xiangfang Railway Station, No. 1 Yiyuan Street, No. 22 Yaojing Street, Harbin Youth Palace, Daowai Old Street, Binzhou Railway Bridge, Harbin Railway Culture Palace and other buildings frequently appear on the big screen and TV screen of theaters. The charm of Harbin, in the eyes of many film and television creators, is a film and television base that does not need to be carved, and it is a natural "dream factory".
National Day,
Watching movies and TV shows is the perfect way to relax.
Let us chase the light and shadow,
Follow these long shots of film and television
Let's enjoy the charm of Harbin in film and television dramas,
Focus on this "City of Treasures".
(1) "Harbin at Night"
Director: Zhao Baogang Screenwriter: Gao Guang
Starring: Lu Yi, Li Xiaoran, Zhou Jie, Sui Junbo, Xu Huanxian, Fan Zhiqi, Kenichi Miura
The drama tells the story of underground workers who took place in Harbin during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Japanese. "Harbin at Night" premiered nationwide on August 25, 2008 on CCTV's general channel.
(2) "Lover's Knot"
Director : Huo Jianqi Starring : Zhao Wei, Lu Yi
Date: February 13, 2005
The film slowly fades, using beautiful pictures and moving details to depict the most simple emotions to us. Deliberately old pictures take us through the time and space of Harbin, back to the 1980s. No costumes, no food, everything is so simple, you can't help but exclaim, it can be so simple. Sitting behind your beloved's car and eating popsicles is love, and laughing at the shadow on the white sheets in the sun is love. "Lover's Knot" has shaped such a story for us. Since childhood, the two unsuspecting protagonists live in the city of Harbin, and love takes root in daily life. But the road to love success is far more difficult than you see. Binzhou Railway Bridge, Songhua River, Central Street in the Snow... The scenes that bear witness to the story of the film are familiar and beautiful.
(3) "The Golden Age"
Director: Xu Anhua Screenwriter: Li Fan
Starring: Tang Wei, Feng Shaofeng, Wang Zhiwen, Zhu Yawen, etc
Date: October 1, 2014
The film takes the Republic of China era as the background, and takes the maverick life and love experience of the legendary female writer xiao Hong of the Republic of China as the introduction, shaping a group of enthusiastic young people who were full of spirit and enthusiasm, and restoring an era full of free ideals and wide sea and sky. Exotic Harbin with bustling Shanghai, the clouds of war in the great northwest compared to Hong Kong under the Japanese occupation, and Wuhan in the ruins of war... In addition to the charm of the history of the characters, there are many small fragments worth noting. It also shows Harbin in the era of Xiao Hong's life from the side. Let us follow Xiao Hong's footsteps, in these cities, reminisce about the historical scenes in the film, and find the most original touch. On 19 April 2015, he won Best Picture at the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards.
(4) "Daytime Fireworks"
Director : Diao Yinan Starring : Liao Fan, Gui Lunmeng
Date: March 21, 2014
"Daytime Fireworks" is a suspenseful love film, the film tells a case of broken corpses that triggered the love redemption story of Gui Lunmeng, Liao Fan and Wang Xuebing. The Didri community in Harbin is the main filming location for this film. It is a large, slightly old open community with narrow streets and many beige residential buildings. The most important location in the film, the Rongrong Dry Cleaner where Gui Lunmeng works, is located at 2 Anfaqiao Street in the community. The two chase scenes on the ice rink are also very exciting, and every winter, the river surface here, which is about 1,000 meters wide, freezes up, forming a solid ice layer of 40 or 50 centimeters thick, so it naturally becomes a huge ice playground. After coming out of the police station in the movie, Liao Fan follows Gui Lunmeng all the way to an iron bridge, where the two have a fierce conflict. This bridge is the Riverside Railway Bridge across the Songhua River. A century-old railway, retro style, and the tone of the film, harbin instantly returned to the days of the 1980s.
(5) "The Dedication of Suspect X"
Director : Su Youpeng Starring : Wang Kai, Zhang Luyi
Date: March 31, 2017
Adapted from Keigo Higashino's mystery novel of the same name, The Dedication of Suspect X, "The Dedication of Suspect X" tells a story of redemption. The film's filming location travels from multiple cities to a fine grinding on the background style. Harbin is one of the shooting locations, after "Daytime Fireworks" plus this suspect, I have to say that Harbin has become the city with the most atmosphere to create a strange murder case, the extreme cold of winter, the deep forest does not see the day, the image of the seemingly lost inland city, are creating the feeling that the director wants to tell.
(6) "Undocumented Crimes"
Director : Lü Xing Starring : Qin Hao, Deng Jiajia
Date: September 6, 2017
In the original novel, the story background takes place in the south, and the crew moved the background to Harbin in the winter when filming, which is also considered by netizens to be a highlight of the adaptation of the whole drama. As a dark horse of the 2017 suspense short drama, this drama has a compact plot and interlocking links, so that the audience can watch it directly. The familiar background in the play is surprising, isn't this Harbin!
The characters in the play confront each other next to the Sophia Church, meet at Lucia's Western Restaurant, and stand in front of Lucia's Café Western Restaurant, against the backdrop of brilliant sunshine and exotic architecture, the whole person will become like a dream. Embracing each other on Central Avenue, all this immerses people living in Harbin in the plot.
(7) "Xiao Hong"
Director : Huo Jianqi Starring : Song Jia, Huang Jue
Screening date: March 8, 2013
In order to commemorate the centenary of Xiao Hong's birth, director Huo Jianqi's film "Xiao Hong" reproduces that period of history through artistic means, allowing the audience to fully and truly understand Xiao Hong and feel Xiao Hong. In 1942, the ill female writer Xiao Hong was trapped in Hong Kong under the fire of the Japanese army, and the young northeastern writer Luo Binji accompanied her, Xiao Hong told Luo Bingji about her 10 years of turbulent writing career, as well as two unusual feelings between her and the writers Xiao Jun and Duanmu Hongliang, especially her unforgettable emotional experience with Xiao Jun. This female writer who was born in war, experienced ups and downs, yearned for love, and was full of charm deeply touched Luo Binji, but at this time, Xiao Hong was already terminally ill. Luo Binji and Duanmu Hongliang, who returned from a trip, sent Xiao Hong to the hospital and accompanied her through the last days of her life... The film shows the garden scenery of the Volga Manor, the Russian-style castle, the Banks of the Ashe River, and the details of the props, showing us the life of Xiao Hong in that era.
(VIII) "Rings of the Year"
Director : Deng Yinghai Screenwriter : Liang Xiaosheng
Starring : Zhang Shihui, Wang Fengbin, Sun Shaobo, Wang Zhigang, Wang Libo
The "Year Ring" TV series spans the thirty years of the greatest social change in our country, so this TV series not only has family, love and friendship, but also a true portrayal of a surging social change, and the volume of more than forty episodes shows the changes of thirty years, and it is not too much to say that the drama is the most realistic period drama. It is said that many of the actors in the TV series were actors of the Harbin Drama Theatre at that time. The ending song of "Ring of The Year" Han Lei's "Is There a Northern Wilderness in the Sky" is sung more highly, especially the children's harmony in the middle, "The beautiful Songhua River, the waves are forward, and the river flows endlessly night and night into sleep" as a finishing touch.
(9) "The Wind and Thunder of Harbin's Past"
Director, Screenwriter: Jiang Kaiyang
Starring: Wang Lei, Xu Lu, Tu Songyan, Chen Lina
The drama tells the story of the sons and daughters of China, led by cold wind, fighting to stop the Japanese army's germ weapons.
(10) "Minus Thirty-Eight Degrees"
Starring: Yu Hewei, Wang Likun
The spy war drama tells the anti-Japanese story of Nian Dingbang and Changqing husband and wife who finally treat each other frankly and work together to complete the task in the baptism of war.
(11) "The Road high and the high"
Starring: Nie Yuan, Tan Kai, Yu Mingjia, Xu Lu
The crime suspense movie, which tells the story of Song Chao, a student who was expelled from the police academy, and Liu Haiyang, a police officer, exposed a shocking shady deal in the process of police chase and black forces, and finally came out of the water and justice won, the film started in Harbin on January 12, 2017.
(xii) "On the Cliff"
Director: Zhang Yimou Screenwriters: Quan Yongxian, Zhang Yimou
Starring: Zhang Yi, Yu Hewei, Qin Hailu, Zhu Yawen, Liu Haocun, Ni Dahong, Li Naiwen
Release date: April 30, 2021
In the 1930s, four Communist agents who had been specially trained in the Soviet Union formed a task force and returned home to carry out a covert operation code-named "Utra". Because of the betrayal of the traitors, from the first moment of parachuting and landing, they were already in the net laid by the enemy. Whether comrades can get out, whether the task can be completed, the snow keeps falling, and the action group standing on the "cliff" is facing a severe test.
The pseudo-Manchurian Harbin Police Department in "On the Cliff", which is now the Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall. The "intelligence transit station" in the film, the Asia Cinema, is only 700 to 800 meters away from the Pseudo-Manchurian Harbin Police Department, which witnesses the wonderful confrontation between the positive and negative factions. In the film, the Romanian Embassy is one of the important scenes that promote the plot, which is actually the Consulate District of Harbin in the 1920s and 1930s. In order to deeply restore the "Museum of Architecture of All Nations" on Central Avenue, "On the Cliff" created a precedent for the reproduction of the Central Avenue block in China, and spent a huge amount of money on 1:1 restoration.
Harbin is a heroic city, but also a city with a story. Many film and television dramas were filmed in the city. There are many more film and television works filmed in Harbin, and today I have only listed a small part. National Day holiday, come to a romantic trip of light and shadow into reality!
Source: Harbin News Network
Reporter: Yu Boyang
Editor: Wang Yue