The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995)
Directed by
Carma Hinton
Richard Gordon
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 180 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Stereo
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113147/
Info: http://www.morningsun.org/film/filmmakers.html
AVI VERSION:During the northern spring of 1989, nightly news accounts filmed in Tiananmen Square alternately enthralled and horrified millions of viewers around the globe. THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE revisits these events and explores the complex political process that eventually led to the Beijing Massacre of June 4th. In April 1989, students occupied Tiananmen Square, using the occasion of the death of Communist Party reformer Hu Yaobang to protest against government corruption and to call for political reform. Ordinary Chinese followed their lead and at the height of this protest movement, more than a million people marched in the streets of Beijing to support the students. Mass demonstrations occurred in cities across China. In May 1989, the international media converged on China to cover the visit of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. They came for a summit but walked into what looked like a revolution, clamorous, colourful, and highly photogenic. The media painted moving portraits of idealistic pro-Western students willing to die for democracy, pitted against aging Communist autocrats. The reality was far more complex. Student leaders disagreed about goals, strategies and tactics, and the government was divided as well. Some leaders saw all protest as counter-revolutionary, but others were anxious to avert repression and push China in the direction of gradual political reform. This film reveals how moderate voices were gradually cowed and then silenced by extremism and emotionalism on both sides. In the course of its story of the events of April to June 1989, THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE presents a wide range of Chinese views concerning the struggle for a better society, including the ongoing debate in China concerning the importance of personal responsibility and moral integrity in public life. It follows the fate of the moderate "third way" of Chinese political debate and civic action, which has remained largely unnoticed by the Western media. "Deep, powerful and rivetingly complex." - David Ansen, Newsweek. "Remarkable and paralysingly suspenseful." - Time Out, New York. "The most incendiary film of the year." - Village Voice, New York.
In the spring of 1989, students and workers gathered in mass protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and set in motion "the most watched but least understood story of the 20th century." Based on years of research and unprecedented access to key players and eyewitnesses, this program reveals the inner workings of the Tiananmen Square massacre and its aftermath.
Painstakingly researched by the U.S. directing team of Carman Hinton and her husband Richard Gordon, The Gate of Heavenly Peace documents the 1989 democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The filmmakers provide a fair and balanced account of the student demonstration and subsequent military repression,s uggesting that irrationally radical positions on both the student and the government sides led inevitably to violence. The film presents an exhausting amount of information, placing the uprising withina complex historical and cultural context context stretching back to student demonstrations at the turn of the century.
Carma Hinton was born in China to American parents and was raised and educated there since 1971. Chinese is her first language and culture. Since 1971, she lives in the United States.
Richard Gordon has been involved with numerous projects in China as director of photography or producer. His credits include workfor National Geographic, the National Film Board of Canada, NOVA, the independent feature documentary Distant Harmony: Pavarotti in China and the PBS series China in Revolution.
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Morning Sun (2003) (TV)
Directed by
Carma Hinton
Geramie Barmé
Richard Gordon
Runtime: 117 min
Country: USA
Language: English / Mandarin
Color: Black and White (archive materials) / Color
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381430/
Web Page: http://www.morningsun.org
"You young people are like the morning sun. You are our hope for the future."
-- Mao Zedong
The Cultural Revolution has to be one of the strangest periods of any totalitarian regime. From the mid-1960s through the mid-'70s, Mao encouraged a sort of controlled open rebellion that purged former Nationalists and many of the original members of the Communist Party.
After the period of the Great Leap Forward, which was a colossal failure and led to starvation in rural China, Mao sensed that his power could be challenged from within his party and took drastic steps to purge those individuals and their philosophies.
What followed was a series of revolts, taking root on college campuses, that encouraged the denunciation, humiliation and sometimes beating and killing of individuals who had flourished in the Nationalist and early Communist regimes -- professors and doctors, for example.
Bravo for "Morning Sun," a densely packed documentary that is about as comprehensive a look at the Cultural Revolution as can be imagined in a two- hour work. Funded by National Asian American Telecommunications Association, a nonprofit organization in San Francisco, and directed by three North Americans with extensive experience living in China, it is a well-researched smorgasbord of newsreel and documentary footage spliced with current interviews with those on the front lines.
Among the high points:
-- The excellent use of the early '60s propaganda film "The East Is Red, " which influenced a generation of young idealists, and several other influential films. As the Cultural Revolution began, the heroes of these films became less and less complex until they were simple-minded, pure characters whose sole objective was "to be a revolutionary bolt that never rusts."
As one former revolutionary says, "I didn't want to be a bolt. Who wants to be a bolt?"
-- Rare interviews with key individuals, like the widow and daughter of former Mao confidant Liu Shaoqi, who was denounced and banished to a remote corner of China; Red Guard leader Luo Xiaohai; Li Rui, who also was exiled; and his daughter, Li Nanyang, who was estranged from her father until she had the courage and the wisdom to call him "Dad" -- many years later.
-- Mao thought that "only out of great disorder comes great order," but one witness observes, "There were no rights -- only the right to make revolution."
Certainly, "Morning Sun" cannot tell the entire complex and controversial story of that era. What it makes clear, however, is that China detonated a "spiritual atom bomb," as one Party member put it, and the fallout from that devastation will be felt for a very long time.
-- G. Allen Johnson
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