Morning Sun

Name: Morning Sun
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 22, 2003
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 76

2003

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Release Date: October 22, 2003

Summary: The film Morning Sun attempts in the space of a two-hour documentary film to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976). It provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes -- and reflected in the hearts and minds -- of members of the high-school generation that wasThe film Morning Sun attempts in the space of a two-hour documentary film to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976). It provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes -- and reflected in the hearts and minds -- of members of the high-school generation that was born around the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and that came of age in the 1960s. (Long Bow Group, Inc.)… Expand

Director: Carma Hinton and Geramie Barmé and Richard Gordon

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 117 min

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G. Allen Johnson

It is a well-researched smorgasbord of newsreel and documentary footage spliced with current interviews with those on the front lines. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Using newsreel footage, clips of artistic propaganda (e.g., joyful proletarian farm ballets), and interviews with survivors, the movie draws us into the annihilating fervor of an era in which purge followed upon purge, in escalating waves of terror and control. Read full review

Charles Taylor

The story they are telling here is still in the process of being written. It's as good a sign as any of how absorbing Morning Sun is that the film's sudden ending makes you greedy for more. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

It's scary to see how one man can brainwash a gigantic nation, as Mao did. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Does a thoughtful job of streamlining the bloody realities -- both literal and psychological -- of China's Cultural Revolution into roughly two hours of film. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Informative and richly illustrated documentary. Read full review

Derek Elley

Admirably balanced production that pulls the curtain back slightly on a little-charted period of modern Chinese history. Read full review

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BenWomack

Mar 14, 2020

Concerned with being true. Thoroughly worthwhile.
A little, using what was mainstream in culture at the time, to infer this had great significance on what most people are like (The East is Red opera, The Gadfly motion picture novel adaptation). But history lesson, good. Thank you.

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