Bridge (1949 film)

Bridge (simplified Chinese: 桥; traditional Chinese: 橋; pinyin: Qiáo) (also known as The Bridge) is a 1949 Chinese war film made shortly after the Communist revolution in China; as such, it is considered the first feature film completed after the founding of the People's Republic of China.[1] As a film, Bridge set many of the themes that would dominate the Socialist cinema of post-1949 China, including the glorification of the worker and the conversion of the intellectual to Communism.[2]

Bridge
Traditional橋
Simplified桥
MandarinQiáo
Directed byWang Bin
Written byYu Min
StarringChen Qiang
Wang Jiayi
Production
company
Release date
  • 1949 (1949)
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin

Plot

During the Chinese Civil War, a railroad factory is commissioned by the Communist army to repair a bridge. Led by a skeptical engineer who does not believe the bridge can be completed in time, the factory workers lack enthusiasm and morale. The project is galvanized, however, by the work of Liang Ruisheng (Wang Jiayi), who inspires his fellow workers to complete the project for the war effort. In the process, even the engineer is converted.

References
  1. Berry, p. 32.
  2. Zhang, p. 192.
Sources
  • Berry, Chris. Postsocialist cinema in post-Mao China: the cultural revolution after the cultural revolution. Routledge (2004). ISBN 0-415-94786-3.
  • Zhang, Yingjin. Chinese national cinema. Routledge (2004). ISBN 0-415-17290-X.


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