The 400 Million Poster

The 400 Million

59.00% | March 7, 1939 | Documentary

Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the Nationalist state’s mobilization—schools, industry, dispersed war production, foreign relief—and guerrilla fighting. Framing an ancient nation of “400 million,” it contrasts tradition with modernization and closes on the unresolved question of victory.

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Joris Ivens
Director
Joris Ivens
Writer
Hanns Eisler
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Cast

Fredric March
Fredric March
Narration (voice)
Morris Carnovsky
Morris Carnovsky
Additional Voice (voice)
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet
Additional Voice (voice)
Robert Q. Lewis
Robert Q. Lewis
Additional Voice (voice)
Alfred Ryder
Alfred Ryder
Additional Voice (voice)

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