''Lover's Grief over the Yellow River'' () is a
1999
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Chinese
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film directed by
Feng Xiaoning
Feng Xiaoning () (born 1954) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He is considered a member of the "Fifth Generation" Chinese directors who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982. Feng however graduated from t ...
. It was China's official
Best Foreign Language Film submission at the
72nd Academy Awards
The 72nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1999 and took place on March 26, 2000, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST ...
, but did not receive a nomination. Feng considers it the second of his "War and Peace" (战争与和平) trilogy.
Plot
The plot centers on an American pilot, played by
Paul Kersey, who also starred in Feng Xiaoning's 1997 ''
Red River Valley'', a film which depicted the
British invasion of Tibet in 1905. During the
Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...
the American pilot makes a forced landing near the
Great Wall
The Great Wall of China (, literally "ten thousand ''li'' wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic groups ...
in North China but is taken into the care of the
Communist guerilla forces. He meets and falls in love with a young woman fighter who had been raped by the Japanese invaders. The American returns to the Yellow River after the opening of China in the 1980s.
See also
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References
External links
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''Lover's Grief over the Yellow River''at the Chinese Movie Database (under the title ''Love Story by the Yellow River'')
1990s Mandarin-language films
Second Sino-Japanese War films
1999 films
1990s war drama films
Chinese war drama films
Films directed by Feng Xiaoning
1990s war films
1999 drama films
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