''Nie Er'', formerly romanized as Nieh Erh, is a 1959 biopic of the Chinese musician

Nie Er Nie Er (14 February 1912 – 17 July 1935), born Nie Shouxin, courtesy name Ziyi (子義 or 子藝), was a Chinese composer best known for "March of the Volunteers", the national anthem of People's Republic of China. In numerous Shanghai magaz ...

, a

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member who drowned in Japan during his flight to

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away from

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oppression. The story centers on his composition of " The March of the Volunteers", the theme song to the 1935 drama '' Children of Troubled Times'' which was later adopted as the

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of the

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. The movie was released to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the PRC's founding.Chi, Robert
"'The March of the Volunteers': From Movie Theme Song to National Anthem" in ''Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China'', pp. 239 ff.
Woodrow Wilson Center Press (

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), 2007.

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1959 films Chinese drama films {{prc-film-stub

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