https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/46b6ff1f-84f1-4f48-b301-98fa7485df51 'Comment Yukong Déplaça les Montagnes' / 'How Yukong Moved the Mountains' China, 1976, Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridan-Ivens Language Audio: ENG dub, Subs: N/A "Power struggle When Ivens and Loridan viewed the new images provided by Li Zexiang, however, they were horrified. He appeared to have forgotten everything they had taught him and returned to his old-fashioned and static approach. Ivens and Loridan decided to gauge the situation for themselves and left for China on July 30th 1975. They screened the already edited segments of the film for a number of cultural aficionados, including vice-premier Zhang Chunqiao, a member of the Gang of Four and a supporter of Jiang Qing. The end of the screening was met with silence, until a famous dancer from one of the model operas who had worked his way up in the party hierarchy took to his feet and presented a list of 61 points of criticism together with suggested emendations. Pharmacy, for example, contains a scene with rain and umbrellas using ‘The East is Red’ as background music. The latter was intended as a salute to Chairman Mao and the shower of rain detracted from it. Suggestion: delete. In another example, two customers are seen chatting in the pharmacy. The men are carrying worn-out suitcases, however, and look like hawkers. Suggestion: delete. The morning sky above the river is too grey and might make people think of air pollution. Suggestion: delete. And so the list went on.[30] Ivens styled the critical observations unacceptable absurdities. He had not come to China to seek permission. The negative remarks were part of the ‘Criticize Lin Biao and Confucius’ campaign organised by Jiang Qing in an effort to finally settle scores with Zhou Enlai. The latter had been admitted to hospital in the meantime with cancer of the bladder and Mao had blocked treatment for two years.[31] Zhou Enlai succeeded, nevertheless, in getting a letter to Ivens and Loridan via the staff of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. It read: ‘Take your film, leave immediately and don’t ever come back’.[32] The visibly moved filmmakers said their emotional farewells at the airport, smothered by the hugs and kisses of forty friends. The latter’s association with the film and friendship with westerners had placed them under suspicion. The ultra left wing campaign also appeared to have been the reason for Li’s old-fashioned camera technique. Banned from filming on location, Ivens and Loridan left the country without the extra material they had come for." -https://www.ivens.nl/ (https://www.ivens.nl/en/163-yukong-on-cannes-classics-2014) Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:45:37 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/46b6ff1f-84f1-4f48-b301-98fa7485df51 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.