Ying Yunwei
YING Yunwei (1904 - 1967, China) was a Chinese film maker and screenwriter. He directed three black-and white films, among which The Eight Hundred Heroes (1938) about the 1938 Shanghai battle in which 800 Kuomintang soldiers resisted the Japanese. This film is an example of a style of film making that was intended to mobilize the masses against the Japanese invaders.
Filmography
Taoli jie/Fate of Graduates (1934), Shengsi tongxin/Life and Death (1936), Ba bai zhuang shi/The Eight Hundred Heroes (1938)
Ying Yunwei at IFFR
The Eight Hundred Heroes
53'
China
IFFR 2010