Behind the scenes production of Khmer Rouge

Shangjun Cai, the director of the film, graduated from the Central Academy of Drama and directed pavel korchagin, which enjoys a high reputation in the theater industry. He also created excellent domestic films such as Spicy Love Soup, Bath and Sunflower as a screenwriter. The Red Khan is his film debut, and it is also the screenwriter's debut that the famous film critic Gu Xiaobai turned to film creation.

The film stars Yao Anlian and Lv Yulai. The former plays the role of "father" in the film. He is a famous middle-aged character actor. His role as a "father" in Green Red was well received, and he won the jury award of Cannes Film Festival by Wang Xiaoshuai, the leading director of the sixth generation, and even almost won the Cannes Film Festival. However, most of his roles before Red Combain were the images of southern men with soft personalities. This time, it is quite challenging to play the authentic northwest man. Lv Yulai, who plays the "son", once played one of the leading roles in Peacock, which won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival directed by the famous director Gu Changwei, and later starred in Palace on horseback with Li Baotian, and was shortlisted for this year's Venice Film Festival. His gentle and unique temperament has been appreciated by the famous Hong Kong director Guan. He signed his name in his studio and recommended him to play one of the leading roles in the large-scale TV series Zhou Xuan. The "son" in "Red Cuban" is Lv Yulai's first attempt to play a role completely different from her own personality and life experience, which is expected to truly establish her stable position among the new generation of young actors.

The photography of this film was specially invited by Lee Seung-woo of South Korea. He studied under movie master and Jin Jide, and made great achievements in the field of commercial films. He is a photographer of the popular Korean entertainment blockbuster My Wild Girlfriend and a disciple of Tian Zhuangzhuang, movie master, China.

Story background

"Combine" is a Chinese transliteration of English combination, which was once a very popular new vocabulary in the 1950s and 1960s. Countless red harvesters are fighting for land in the north and south of the Yangtze River, harvesting the grain of life and the joys and sorrows of fate. Combain confirms the ups and downs of China, a big agricultural country rooted in land, but things have changed with the passage of time. But in fact, in the annual wheat harvest season, there are still a large number of people at the bottom of society who drive new and old harvesters to work across provinces, eat and live on vast land, and travel thousands of miles for life and harvest. Together with them, there are countless customers who have sickle wheat, and they follow the traditional manual way. They wander in fertile or barren land, struggle with the torrent of the times, personal destiny and natural environment, and stay on every trip every year.

Supervisor's self-report

Director Shangjun Cai said: "You can say it is a so-called art film, because it cares about reality very much, emphasizes the overall texture very much, and reveals the truest burning pain and decay in life. Because the wheat harvest, the earth, the migration and the evolution of the times are closely related to life, we also emphasize its uniqueness in the image, that is, it must be very realistic and contain heavy poetry, so we will choose to cooperate with Korean photographers this time. I hope to get rid of the more deliberate and inflexible habit pattern of domestic films, but I will never deliberately create the so-called' artistic image'. I actually serve the complete story. Speaking of stories, it is the basic element that we emphasize most in this film. It is based on the true feelings involved in body and mind, full of twists and turns. It can be said that after another wave of unrest, it can bring great inner tension to the audience. We hope it can bring strong emotional shock to the audience, so in this sense, this film is also a good-looking commercial film. At the same time, this film is also rich in excellent elements of a large number of types of films, such as road films, youth films and even suspense films, but it definitely serves the story ... so we want to make an absolutely beautiful film first, so that people can have some memories after watching it. In their memories, I want to inject some confusion and reflection on the current social situation in China, such as abandoning the land where we were born and raised, and caring for the bottom individuals. For example, looking for lost true feelings in the increasingly materialistic economy and society ... Of course, a movie can't have any real practical significance, and social progress is unstoppable. This may be the most cruel place. "