Film
The 400 Million
United States- Director
- Joris Ivens
- Year
- 1939
Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war production, foreign relief—and guerrilla fighting. Framing an ancient nation of “400 million,” it contrasts tradition with modernization and closes on the unresolved question of victory.
Top cast
Directed by
Joris Ivens, John Fernhout
Written by
Joris Ivens, Dudley Nichols
