The 400 Million
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Adelaide Bean · Alfred Ryder · Fredric March · Lai Sek · Madame Chiang · Morris Carnovsky · Robert Q. Lewis · Sidney Lumet · John Fernhout · Joris Ivens · Dudley Nichols