https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/cadb5cd7-1fd5-41c5-8f42-452f003d5396 'Comment Yukong Déplaça les Montagnes' / 'How Yukong Moved the Mountains' China, 1976, Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridan-Ivens Language Audio: ENG dub, Subs: N/A "Premiere By September 20th, Ivens and Loridan were back in Paris: ‘and then the third part of our long march started, i.e. distributing the films, launching them, having documentation printed, publicity. For a variety of reasons, we prefer to do the work ourselves’.[34] Ivens expected the premiere to be at the end of November or the beginning of December, but the work involved was vast. ‘There’s still so much to be done here in our CAPI film shop, and all with a minimum of helpers, little money – thus 110% commitment in energy and imagination from Marceline and me – very little money, as we approach the end of a project that has grown to enormous proportions under our care, evidence that eighteen months of filming in China was extremely intensive and its processing here in Paris fruitful. It helps to keep me young and to face whatever problems come my way (including financial concerns)...’[35] The target date for the premiere was postponed to March 1976. When Jan Blokker of the VPRO approached Ivens with a proposal to broadcast the series simultaneously on television he responded: ‘Please understand that we are deeply in debt, and if we can sell the film to a country that can pay more for it, this will give us a little more elbow room’.[36] When Blokker pressed the issue a second time in February, Ivens wrote: ‘Such a shame we’re not millionaires. But then we probably wouldn’t have made films in China, and certainly wouldn’t want to broadcast them’. In the middle of January, Ivens and Loridan screened the final montage for an invited audience of thirty. First impressions: ‘...an extraordinary work that offers a balanced picture of a wholly unfamiliar country, about which virtually nothing is known. The segments that focus on everyday life are full to the brim with human characteristics that often have a humorous effect when the audience recognises reactions and ordinary details’.[37] All 12 segments of the film premiered simultaneously on March 10th in four Paris cinemas, thus allowing the public to follow the entire series. ‘Joris Ivens and China conquer Paris’ wrote Louis Ferron, ‘...it’s like an event without equal, which has already had a profound influence on the dress habits of many a Parisian’.[38] The latter observation referred to the latest fashion trend: Mao suits with turned up collars and caps in an endless variety of blues. Roughly 130,000 people saw the film in Paris and 300,000 in France as a whole. The press reaction on both sides of the political spectrum was positive. The Cannes film festival screened the segments with the football incident and the generator factory in May of the same year." -https://www.ivens.nl/ (https://www.ivens.nl/en/163-yukong-on-cannes-classics-2014) Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:14:06 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/cadb5cd7-1fd5-41c5-8f42-452f003d5396 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.