Federation University Historical Collection
Film - Video, Michelangelo Antonioni, Chung Kuo - Cina by Michelangelo Antoniolo, 1972
... Chung Kuo - Cina by Michelangelo Antoniolo...Chung Kuo - Cina... at Beijing's Cinema Institute 30 years later. Chung Kuo - Cina ...
A documentary on China, concentrating mainly on the faces of the people, filmed in the areas they were allowed to visit. The 220 minute version consists of three parts. The first part, taken around Beijing, includes a cotton factory, older sections of the city, and a clinic where a Cesarean operation is performed, using acupuncture.
In 1972, during Mao's Cultural Revolution, Michelangelo Antonioni was invited by the People's Republic of China to direct a documentary about New China. The result was a three-and-a-half-hour long film, divided into three parts. Mao disliked it so much that Michelangelo Antonioni was consequently charged with being anti-Chinese as well as counterrevolutionary. The movie was finally shown at Beijing's Cinema Institute 30 years later.The boxed video reels containt
.1 - Reel One in black National Video Tape box
.2 - Reel Two in black National Video Tape boxchung kuo - cina, michelangelo antonioli, video, video reel