Jiabiangou

The film is adapted from the novel "Farewell to Jiabiangou". From October 1957 to the end of 1960, more than 3,000 "rightists" from Gansu Province were deported to this labor camp located in the Gobi Desert in Jiuquan, Gansu Province to receive "accommodation" and "discipline." The harsh class struggle and the famous famine soon turned this place into a hell on earth. More than half of the "rightists" on the farm died of hunger. In December 1960, Liu Lantao, then Secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, chaired a meeting in Lanzhou to "correct the ultra-left line" and carry out "life-saving" work. Only then were the survivors able to be repatriated to their places of origin one after another in January 1961. The film selected three of the 19 stories in the original work as its basis: "Shanghai Women", "Escape" and "Ward No. 1". The crew spent three years interviewing the parties involved, found photos, texts, and letters, and restructured and readjusted (the stories) to become the current film. What is "Jiabiangou"? Like "Auschwitz", this is a place name, an event, and a piece of history - a cruel history that people cannot imagine and cannot bear afterwards. From October 1957 to the end of 1960, in this...