To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the documentary "Shangganling" will be broadcast on January 2, 2024. The documentary has three episodes, each episode is about 50 minutes, telling the story of the famous Battle of Shangganling in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. The exclusive footage of the day of the battle at Shangganling will be available for the first time. public.
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The Battle of Shangganling is a classic battle in which the Chinese People's Volunteers defeated the strong with the weak. In 2023, the documentary "Shangganling" was jointly produced by the Shanghai Radio and Television Documentary Center, BesTV Network Television Technology Development Co., Ltd., and Bilibili. After many searches, the director team finally found a film archive record in the U.S. National Archives. It is marked above as an image of the 7th U.S. Infantry Division somewhere in North Korea on October 14, 1952, the day the Battle of Shangganling broke out. After digital conversion of the film, the director discovered that this 10-minute original film not only captured footage of the U.S. bombardment of the Shangganling area on the day of the war, but also recorded wounded soldiers at the U.S. military field medical station and mountains of shell casings, which shows the seriousness of the war situation at that time. fierce. The documentary "Shangganling" uses many precious historical images from the Central News Documentary Film Studio that reflect the battles and life of the volunteers. These newly discovered real images are presented for the first time in the documentary "Shangganling".
The film invited a team that had participated in the special effects production of the movie "Changjin Lake" to create a three-dimensional sand table and a three-dimensional reproduction of some battle scenes. The director team also teamed up with the special effects team to apply virtual motion capture technology to the documentary, inviting professional military action The actors reproduced the innovative tactics "making dumplings" and "air bombing" invented by veterans of the volunteer army. At the same time, the documentary is inspired by the popular episode "My Motherland" in the old movie "Shangganling", and uses different orchestrations to perform the theme music of the documentary.
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In addition to domestic filming and interviews, the film crew also traveled to South Korea, Russia, and the United States to search for story clues and archive materials. The director team obtained a batch of precious archival materials and battlefield photos of the Battle of Shangganling through the descendants of veterans and military history experts, adding many vivid details. In order to tell the story of the very classic artillery battle in the battle, the film crew not only photographed various types of artillery used by the volunteers at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, but also went to the Central Museum of the Russian Armed Forces in Moscow to photograph the BM-13 rocket launcher. It is the famous "Katyusha". Since the Shangganling area is still a military restricted area, in the summer of 2023, the film crew also followed the descendants of the volunteer army martyrs and a team of experts to pay homage at the border between North and South Korea and record the touching moments.
The director team of the documentary "Shangganling" are all born in the 80s and 90s. In this creation, they also interviewed and filmed many young people and "Shangganling" stories to add to the documentary. At the same time, they used technological means to show history, such as making miniature models. Restore the classic tunnel battles in Shangganling; restore the tactics of the Volunteer Army through three-dimensional simulation and virtual motion capture technology; use shooting games to recreate the style of the Volunteer Army's sharpshooters, etc. Sun Jiayi, a girl born in the 1980s, is the initiator of the public welfare project "I came to find relatives for the martyrs". She once led a team of volunteers to find relatives of martyrs Wang Wancheng and Zhu Youguang who died in the Battle of Shangganling. The documentary crew also followed them to the martyrs' hometowns to record Many touching stories. Zhu Hong, the chief producer of the
documentary "Shangganling" said: "Many of the martyrs who died in the Battle of Shangganling were in their youth. The documentary "Shangganling" also added the perspective of contemporary young people, paying tribute to youth with youth, and telling everyone about more than 70 years. The young people behind have not forgotten history or heroes." The film will be broadcast on Dragon TV every Tuesday at 22:00, and will be broadcast simultaneously on BesTV iptv/Internet TV/cable TV large screens and Bilibili.
Text/Xinmin Evening News reporter Wu Xiang
editor/Qiao Ying
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