The film "Wangdao", which is the first producer of Shanghai Film and tells the life of Chen Wangdao, the first Chinese translator of "Communist Manifesto", has recently announced that it will be released on March 24. On February 23, "Wang Tao" held a media advanced viewing event in Shanghai.

After three years of polishing, "Wang Dao" has a "golden team" with super nationalism. Director Hou Yong won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Cinematography, and the leading actors Liu Ye, Hu Jun, and Janice Man have all won or nominated for the "Three Gold Awards for Chinese Films". Wu Xiaoliang and Xi Meijuan are special stars. Among them, Liu Ye and Hu Jun cooperated again after 20 years to interpret the story of Chen Wangdao and Chen Duxiu, two close friends in faith, on the road to revolution.

Starting in 1920, the film tells the life of Chen Wangdao, the first Chinese translator of the "Communist Manifesto", who has gone through turbulent changes, and has always followed the life of his name "Wangdao", "pursuing the truth of saving the country and the people". A group portrait of aspiring young people with ideals and beliefs.

Liu Ye as Chen Wangdao

Talk about Chen Wangdao's life well, "let more audiences understand him"

At the movie viewing meeting, Hou Yong shared the story behind the creation with everyone through a video connection.

Similar to many viewers, the name "Chen Wangdao" was unfamiliar to Hou Yong before the film project started. "Frankly speaking, before I made this movie, I only knew that there was a man called 'Chen Wangdao'." After some understanding, Hou Yong was moved by Chen Wangdao's legendary life, and he was determined to tell the story of "Wangdao" well.

When Chen Wangdao is mentioned, many eyes will focus on his translation of the first Chinese version of the Communist Manifesto. This move is not only the most glorious stroke in his life, but also an important event in the history of the Communist Party of China and even the entire modern history of China. The film depicts this historical fact in a large number of details: In order to find a translator who is proficient in foreign languages and good at vernacular, Chen Duxiu and the editorial department of "Weekly Review" staged a "hilarious" "recruitment scene"; The familiar first sentence "a specter, the specter of communism, is wandering in Europe", Chen Wangdao considered the role of his combat call, and translated it into "a monster is wandering in Europe, and this monster is communism"; The accurate Chinese expression of Bourgeois and Proletarians, the crumpled waste paper piled up on the floor of the house, and he finally had a flash of inspiration while practicing martial arts, overturning the Japanese version of "gentleman, commoner" and ordinary "rich, poor" The translation method proposed the "haves and have-nots" that most conform to the connotation of communism; the 1,000 first Chinese translations of the first edition of which the title of the cover book was misprinted as "Communist Manifesto"; and the famous mistake of eating ink as sugar water , "The taste of truth is very sweet" story.

Director Hou Yong connected with the scene

At the movie viewing meeting, Hou Yong specially emphasized that the English name of the film is "Manifesto (Manifesto)": "I hope that the audience will not only understand the story of the "Communist Manifesto" after watching it, but also know a little about the text of the Manifesto."

The film does not just stop at the first Chinese translation of the "Communist Manifesto", but follows the wave of modern Chinese revolution and continues to tell Chen Wangdao's experience: from taking over "New Youth" with great ambitions, organizing the labor movement with fighting spirit, to fighting side by side His companions left one after another, broke down and cried after the April 12 incident, went to the streets to raise funds for the reconstruction of the "Fudan News Center" in Beibei, Chongqing, and was seriously ill in bed due to overwork and worry... This is the first time such an obsession appears in a film and television work. Chen Wangdao is honest, straightforward, and has a "human touch".

And the title of the movie "Wangdao" refers not only to Chen Wangdao, but also to the group of "Wangdaos". Chen Duxiu, Shi Cuntong, Dai Jitao, Li Hanjun, Xuan Zhonghua, Cai Muhui, Lin Yin, Yang Along, etc. appeared successively in the film. Dedicated to future generations, some accompanied Chen Wangdao all his life. The addition of this character chain enriches the emotional entanglements of Chen Wangdao's characters, and also portrays the passion and hardship of the revolution and the capriciousness of fate in that turbulent era. Among them, the double-faced life of Dai Jitao, a rightist of the Kuomintang, and the image of Chen Duxiu in his later years made the audience sigh with emotion.

Hu Jun as Chen Duxiu

Through the century-old dialogue, Shanghai Film Group continues to move forward with its original intention

"Wang Tao" not only tells the story of the germination of faith and sticking to the truth, but also how the faith is passed on and carried forward. In the film, Yang Along, the printer of the first translation of the "Communist Manifesto" and the leader of the labor movement, under the torture and lure of the enemy, still chooses to stick to his faith and be a "father who does not shame his children". Blood spilled on the execution ground. Seventeen years later, his son Yang Fenglin was admitted to the "Fudan News Center" and studied under Chen Wangdao, becoming "the light chaser in the dark night, the reporter of the truth, and the defender of the truth". At the end of the film, when he gave back to Chen Wangdao the "Communist Manifesto" that Chen Wangdao gave to Yang Along, and his mother Lin Yin became Chen Wangdao who was embraced by the Shanghai People's Liberation Army and took to the streets to welcome him, the inheritance of the red blood finally showed its brilliance.

Dong Chang as Yang Along

And this power and belief will also be passed on to the current audience through "Wang Tao". As Liu Ye, the actor of Chen Wangdao, said: "Going back to 100 years ago, when these people were fighting for the country and their ideals, they were all young people, equivalent to today's post-90s and post-00s, so they can also give us a lot of inspiration today. .At any time and in the face of any situation, we must stick to our beliefs and not be afraid of difficulties in order to realize our ideals."

"100 years ago, Comrade Chen Wangdao translated the first full Chinese translation of the "Communist Manifesto", which played an important role in guiding a large number of people with lofty ideals to establish the lofty ideal of communism and devote themselves to the cause of national liberation and revitalization." June 27, 2020, Xi Jinping The general secretary said in his reply letter to the party member volunteer service team of the "Communist Manifesto" exhibition hall of Fudan University, and mentioned in the letter that "only with faith can we go far." "Wang Dao" takes this as the starting point, hoping to open a "dialogue through a century" that will inspire contemporary youth on the big screen. At present, the film has been included in the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee's Four History Education and Learning Program, the directory of Shanghai's key literary and artistic creation projects, and is also a key project of Shanghai Film (Group) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Film Group")'s "14th Five-Year Plan" boutique content .

Wang Jianer, Chairman and Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Film Group, said at the movie viewing meeting: "Movies are recovering, and Shanghai Film is also advancing the high-quality content strategy at full speed. "Wangdao" is the opening drama of Shanghai Film's big screen this year. Movie Metropolis will have 'good shows on stage'." He revealed that the first three films of Shanghai Film's "Newcomers and New Works Project" "Xiaoyaoyou", "Hello Classmates" and "Good Wishes in the World" have all completed filming, adapted from Shanghai. Writer Jin Yucheng's novel of the same name, and the series "Flowers" co-produced by director Wong Kar-wai have also entered post-production.

In addition, Shanghai Film Group will launch a series of key works on the big screen in the next three years: the movie "Secret Files" relies on the "secret file keeper" to protect the historical facts of the early top-secret file "Central Library" of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which will be full of suspense "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is adapted from the novel of the same name that won the "Five One Project" Excellent Work Award. It will show "the red background of Shanghai and the bright colors of the times." , highlighting Shanghai-style characteristics”; the film "August City Events" will reflect the unparalleled humanistic features and urban character of Shanghai through a romantic story; and two excellent films from Shanghai Animation Film Studio, the classic IP animation film " "New Snow Child" and the successor to "Chinese Animation School", the ink animation feature film "Flying Antelope".

Wang Jianer said: "Shanghai Film has created countless film and television works that are deeply loved by the audience. Creating for the people will always be the fundamental original intention of Shanghai Film. Winter is coming to spring. We believe that the story of Shanghai Film in 2023 will be full of passion and hope."