The movie is directly derived from the classical Chinese poem "A River of Spring Flows Eastward".
"A River of Spring Flows East" is a feature film directed and written by Cai Chusheng and Zheng Junli, starring Bai Yang, Tao Jin, Shu Xiuwen, Shangguan Yunzhu and others. The film was released in China in 1947.
The film mainly tells the story of a family's joys and sorrows during the great changes of China's Anti-Japanese War.
Brief review:
The director of "A River of Spring Flows East" is Cai Chusheng and Zheng Junli. Cai Chusheng is Zheng Junli’s teacher, and he studied under Zheng Zhengqiu, the first generation director in China. From then on until Xie Jin, they all came from the same line and continued the tradition of film art in their works.
This tradition can be simply described with several characteristics. For example, it insists on "writing to convey the truth", which means using movies to provide educational value and carry social morality; in addition, the film is in line with the appreciation habits of the Chinese people, "beautiful "" and "goodness" are always unified in the works.