The 400 Million (1939)
1939 · 0h 54m · Documentary
Genres: 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.
Director: Joris Ivens, John Fernhout
Writers: Dudley Nichols, Joris Ivens
Music by: Hanns Eisler
Cinematography: John Fernhout, Robert Capa
Editor: Helen van Dongen
Cast
Fredric March as Narration (voice)Morris Carnovsky as Additional Voice (voice)Sidney Lumet as Additional Voice (voice)Robert Q. Lewis as Additional Voice (voice)Alfred Ryder as Additional Voice (voice)Adelaide Bean as Additional Voice (voice)Lai Sek as Himself (archive footage)Madame Chiang as Herself (archive footage)More like this
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