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
Morris Carnovsky · Alfred Ryder · Adelaide Bean · John Fernhout · Fredric March · Joris Ivens · Dudley Nichols · Sidney Lumet · Robert Q. Lewis · Madame Chiang · Lai Sek