On 14 September 2020, CMC staff and last year’s MA and PhD students were invited by the UK-China Film Collab, a London based non-profit organisation, to the Premier at Leicester Square of The Eight Hundred (八佰), a 2020 Chinese historical war drama film, directed and co-written by Guan Hu (管虎). The film is about eight hundred Chinese soldiers fighting under siege in a warehouse in the middle of Shanghai and directly across the river from the International Concession, in 1937.
After the film, the CMC Director was interviewed by CCTV, CGTN and Europe Daily (欧洲日报) as to whether he thought that the dramatic and technically brilliant film and its human story would appeal to Westerners. He suggested that for the film to be comprehensible and appealing to Europeans and Americans, it would be useful to get across these points:
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