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1937 Introduction to Nanjing Memory

On the evening of 20 1 1 65438+1October1Sunday, the large-scale documentary "1937 Memory of Nanjing" was jointly produced by the Science and Education Channel of CCTV and Jiangsu Radio and Television Headquarters as 201. It tells the story of the Nanjing Massacre from the perspective of six contemporary figures. They are Zhang Chunru, the first China writer to introduce the historical facts of the Nanjing Massacre to the world, Bill Gutenberg, the American director who filmed the documentary Nanjing, and Buping, the former director of the Institute of Modern History of China Academy of Social Sciences and the author of Beyond War. The first episode of 1937 Memory of Nanjing was broadcast at the premiere, which brought a video memory worth cherishing and thinking for the guests present.

Ignition before sowing

20 14 On June 27th, at the 25th French International Sunshine Documentary Festival held in La Rochelle, France, five of the six proposals invited by the president of the conference came from Europe, and only Yan Dong, the general director of Memory of Nanjing 1937, came from China. What's more worth mentioning is that "1937 Memory of Nanjing" won the only pre-sale unit award at this conference. The jury spoke highly of the documentary. They think that the Nanjing Massacre is unknown to the world, which is why this documentary is worth looking forward to.

No longer simply show disasters.

The whole film * * 5 episodes 1937 Memories of Nanjing, with China, Japan and the western world as the main thread, Chinese-American woman writer Zhang Chunru, American director Bill Gutentag, Japanese female teacher Matsuoka Ring, curator of memorial hall for victims of Nanjing Massacre by Japanese invaders Zhu Chengshan and China historian Bu Ping as the clues, comprehensively shows the current world's reaction to World War II and the events in China. The audience will understand the atrocities against humanity from their perspective, see how they accuse atrocities and uphold justice with their lives, think about the destruction of human life by war with their conscience, practice the concept of cherishing peace and stopping war, and understand their difficult transformation process as diggers, recorders and researchers in this painful memory center.

Tell the story of China from an international perspective

In the two years of creation, in order to have a comprehensive and objective understanding of the Nanjing Massacre, the film crew went to the United States, Japan, Germany, Poland, South Korea and other countries to interview relevant people, filmed 1.67 million minutes of high-definition materials overseas, and interviewed more than 20 overseas experts, scholars, witnesses and survivors. With Richard Rhodes, an American historian, Ross Terrill, the author of Mao Zedong's biography, Abraham Bo Gu, a great influence among American Jews, Jim Lech, the host of American TV station, Zhang Chunru's mother Zhang Yingying, her husband Brett Douglas, her friend Barbara Mei Sen, her classmate Paula Kaman and editor Susan nabil, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, never.

International narration is one of the characteristics of movies, and the expression of details is very important for a historical documentary. Memory of Nanjing (1937) expresses traditional topics, traditional thinking and traditional narrative context in a very fresh way. In order to pursue plain and profound lens language, touching story details and keep simple and heavy tone and atmosphere, the creative team decided to abandon a lot of animation and copying in narrative style and directly use montage to make the film return to the essence of documentary with the most plain images.

Discover many precious materials for the first time.

As a historical documentary, authentic and comprehensive historical materials are very important and should not be underestimated. Since the filming of Memory of Nanjing (1937), a data editing and directing group has been established. Their duty is to collect and sort out all the historical materials about the Nanjing Massacre, and effectively integrate and screen the domestic historical materials about the Massacre. At the same time, the film crew also collected a large number of very precious historical files in foreign libraries and archives in the United States, Japan, Canada, Germany and other places. During filming in Yale University, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Shiwei Society, Nashville American Christian Church and other places, the relevant materials were deeply excavated. And unexpectedly obtained many precious files and materials that have been sealed for more than half a century.

In this film, the audience will see for the first time the footage of Zhang Chunru, a Chinese-American woman writer, interviewing and filming the survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, and 54 boxes of information of George Fitch, the director-general of the YMCA in Nanjing Safe Area, will also be made public for the first time.