Sun and Man

Synopsis

With the birth of New China, a husband-and-wife pair of Overseas Chinese painters resolve to return to the embrace of their motherland, and their child is born under the five-starred red flag. But these Overseas Chinese patriots are persecuted in various political campaigns and their daughter subject to discrimination from childhood. The male lead freezes to death as a fugitive and draws a giant question mark in the snow before dying. The daughter emigrates following the Cultural Revolution; when her relatives try to stop her, she says: "You love the motherland, but does the motherland love you?" Based on a script by Bai Hua, SUN AND MAN was completed in 1981 but permanently shelved following high-level criticism and a public campaign against its "anti-Party" character. The film is said to survive in the studio archive but has never been publicly screened. A Taiwanese adaptation of the script (with some modifications) was released in 1982 under the English title PORTRAIT OF A FANATIC.

Main Cast

Liu Wenzhi

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Huang Meiying

Age : 73 | Popularity : 3%

Leng Mei

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Hua Bai
Directing	Director	Peng Ning
Sound	Music	Shi Wanchun
Department	Role	Name

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