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Morning Sun

Morning Sun

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 24, 2003

Runtime

1h 57m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

74%

Original Title

八九点钟的太阳

Director

Richard Gordon

Description

The film Morning Sun attempts in the space of a two-hour documentary film to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976). It provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes—and reflected in the hearts and minds—of members of the high-school generation that was born around the time of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, and that came of age in the 1960s. Others join them in creating in the film’s conversation about the period and the psycho-emotional topography of high-Maoist China, as well as the enduring legacy of that period.