Movie Details
Cast & Crew
A
Adelaide Bean
as Additional Voice (voice)
The 400 Million (1939)
Audience Score
WritersJoris Ivens
Plot
Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war production, foreign relief—and guerrilla fighting. Framing an ancient nation of “400 million,” it contrasts tradition with modernization and closes on the unresolved question of victory.
