Chung Kuo, Cina

Chung Kuo, Cina (original title) is an Italian Documentary directed by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1972. It focuses primarily on the lives of working class Han Chinese during this time period. In 1972, during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, Michelangelo Antonioni was invited by the People's Republic of China to direct a documentary about New China. Only permitted to visit certain parts of the country, the director traveled with his crew for eight weeks in Beijing, Nanjing, Suzhou, Shanghai, and Henan. The result was a three and a half hour long film, divided into three parts. Mao and his wife Jiang Qing disliked it so much that Michelangelo Antonioni was consequently charged with being anti-Chinese as well as counterrevolutionary. The...