Aftershock (2010 film)
Aftershock is a 2010 Chinese disasterdrama film directed by Feng Xiaogang and produced by Huayi Brothers, starring Xu Fan, Zhang Jingchu, Chen Daoming, Lu Yi, Zhang Guoqiang and Li Chen. The film depicts the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. It was released in China onJuly 2010, and is the first big commercial film IMAX film created outside the United States. The film was a major box office success, and has grossed more than US100 million at the Chinese box office.
In the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, a rescue team informs Li that her twins are trapped together under a slab of concrete. Lifting the slab in any way will kill one of her children. Heartbroken, she decides to save her son, Fang Da. The girl, Fang Deng, survives and wakes up later to find herself among several dead bodies.Assumed to be an orphan, Fang Deng is adopted by a military couple. She refuses to speak, but eventually opens up and bonds with her adopted parents, the couple Wang Deqing and Dong Guilan. Ten years later, Fang Deng renamed to Wang Deng after taking on her adoptive fathers surname is accepted into medical school and moves away, where she meets a graduate student, Yang Zhi, and begins an intimate relationship with him. In Fang Dengs third year of study, her adoptive mother falls ill. Before dying, she asks Fang Deng to use the money they saved to find her real family. Fang Deng finds out she is pregnant, and despite being pressured by Yang to get an abortion, she refuses to abandon her baby. She secretly drops out of university and loses contact with Yang and her adoptive father. ........
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