Watch: 夹边沟 2010 123movies, Full Movie Online – It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao’s camps, at the end of the fifties, where ‘rightists’ were sent to be ‘re-educated through labor’..
Plot: The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were “rightist elements”. The film tells of the harsh life of these men, who coped with physical exhaustion, extreme cold, starvation and death on a daily basis.
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“Middle Ages” in China
When people cease to be people and become code names (whether they are “rightists”, “infidels” or so-called “inferior races” are essentially the same), hell will follow. And those in power are better than ever at oppressing the weak. The Jiabiangou at that moment is exactly the same as Shanghai at this moment. China desperately needs such films to help us truly remember history.
Endurance Limits
There are some films that you enjoy and some that you admire but not necessarily enjoy watching. The Ditch comes under the latter category. This enactment of the brutalities handed out to some Chinese citizens in late fifties & early sixties by the Mao regime, under the guise of “Re-Education”, is certainly tough going. In fact there were several walkouts in the screening that I attended. Although The Ditch is a well made film with realistic performances and tightly controlled direction, it does raise the question of what is necessary to be shown on the screen and what should be left to the viewer’s imagination. As an example, a graphic depiction of some one throwing up food and another prisoner feeding himself on the vomit is not everybody’s idea of entertainment or even enlightenment. But, as a piece of film making and a history lesson, The Ditch has many worthwhile attributes though one may want to look the other way during certain scenes.
Original Language zh
Runtime 1 hr 52 min (112 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Drama
Director Bing Wang
Writer Bing Wang, Xianhui Yang
Actors Ye Lu, Renjun Lian, Cenzi Xu
Country Hong Kong, France, Belgium, South Korea, Netherlands
Awards 4 wins & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format HDCAM
Cinematographic Process HDCAM (source format)
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)