https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/5060d76b-2862-45ba-b786-7cba474ec80b 'Comment Yukong Déplaça les Montagnes' / 'How Yukong Moved the Mountains' China, 1976, Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridan-Ivens Language Audio: ENG dub, Subs: N/A "A battle Ivens explained to Rewy Allen, a friend from Beijing: ‘To put 12 hours films on the capitalist commercial screen and television that is really a battle. Maybe we underestimated the class resistance we would meet, however com. Zhou Enlai told us clearly what we had to expect, and the only way for us was to win the battle. The first battle indeed we won. An extremely successful launching of our films in Paris, with a worldwide echo. Now we have a strong weapon in our hand in the field of psychological propaganda for China, for our cause’.[39] The distribution of the film focused in the first instance on television with Loridan taking responsibility for most of the negotiations. ‘Marceline chased me to the mountains to rest and recover my strength. [...] Distribution is really not my thing, and being commercial even less. My father was quick to realise this when I was working for the firm and doing more damage than good. We have similar money worries, bills to pay, wage arrears, loans – its beyond imagination. No money for an English version! No money for 35mm! What do we do... make an English version with friends, Joe Losey and others, who’ll refuse to take money or ask very little, and just keep going’.[40] The English version was followed by German, Italian, Dutch and Finish versions..., in each instance under the supervision of both filmmakers: ‘Supervising a version is necessary to ensure quality, artistic and political accuracy’.[41] All twelve parts were screened with considerable success at the Venice Bienniale, in Montreal, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York – with long early-morning queues, noisily protesting New Yorkers unable to get a ticket, traffic chaos – and at the University of Berkeley. Both Ivens and Loridan were kept busy promoting the Yukong series until 1979, travelling, giving interviews, arranging translations, negotiating sales, and participating in debates.[42]" -https://www.ivens.nl/ (https://www.ivens.nl/en/163-yukong-on-cannes-classics-2014) Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:30:59 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/5060d76b-2862-45ba-b786-7cba474ec80b All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.