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Back to 1942
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6.7In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by one of the most tragic famines in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated by locusts, windstorms, earthquakes, epidemic disease and the corruption of the ruling Kuomintang government.
Released: 2012-11-01145 minDir: Feng XiaogangWar, DramaBox office: $311
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Cast
- Zhang Guoli as Fan Dianyuan
- Xu Fan as Hua Zhi
- Zhang Mo as Shuan Zhu
- Zhang Hanyu as An Ximan
- Chen Daoming as Jiang Jieshi
- Adrien Brody as Theodore Harold White
Themes
- china
- drought
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Ratings
IMDb
6.9/10
3,938 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
36%
Metacritic
41/100
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- 33 wins & 21 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- war film
- Country of origin
- China
- Original language
- Chinese
- Director
- Feng Xiaogang
- Screenwriter
- Liu Zhenyun
- Cast member
- Qiao Zhenyu
- Composer
- Zhao Jiping
- Producer
- Peter Lam
- Cinematographer
- Lü Yue
- Narrative location
- Henan
- Duration
- 145
- FilmAffinity ID
- 265700
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 2013-05-09
- title
- Back to 1942
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 5.2/10
- capital cost
- 250000000
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