Visions Cinema: Cinema in China - An Account by Tony Rayns

Directed by Ron Orders

With Tony Rayns, Sun Yu, Shen Fu, Huang Shaofen and Ruifang Zhang

History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the organisation of filmmaking under the post-war communist government; the impact of the Cultural Revolution; the work of Xie Jin.