Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm

Children of Troubled Times, also known as Fngyn rn, Children of the Storm, and several other translations, is a patriotic 1935 Chinese film most famous as the origin of The March of the Volunteers, the national anthem of the Peoples Republic of China. The movie was directed by Xu Xingzhi and written by Tian Han and Xia Yan. Yuan Muzhi plays an intellectual who flees the trouble in Shanghai to pursue the glamorous Wang Renmei only to join the Chinese resistance after the death of his friend.

After hearing that Liang has been killed, however, Xin has a change of heart and rushes to join the war effort.The film was a strongly leftist, produced by the Diantong Film Company and based on a story by Tian Han, a cardcarrying Communist party member since 1932. Tian was arrested by the Nationalists shortly after it was released. In addition, it starred Yuan Muzhi, who would join the Communists in 1940 and had music by the Communist composer Nie Er. ........

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