The Founding of an Army is a 2017 Chinese historical drama produced by the China Film Group Corporation to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. Produced by Han Sanping and directed by Andrew Lau, it is the third installment of the Founding of New China trilogy, along with The Founding of a Republic (2009) and The Founding of a Party (2011). The film features a star-studded cast of Chinese actors. It was released on July 28, 2017, to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
Plot The story begins in 1927 at the beginning of the Nanchang uprising, known as the first major Kuomintang–Communist engagement.
Cast
Liu Ye as Mao Zedong Zhu Yawen as Zhou Enlai Huang Zhizhong as Zhu De Wang Jingchun as He Long Oho Ou as Ye Ting Liu Haoran as Su Yu Ma Tianyu as Lin Biao Xiao Ai as Ye Jianying Lay Zhang as Lu Deming Li Yifeng as He Changgong Bai Yu as Cai Qingchuan Liang Dawei as Chen Geng Yu Hewei as Chen Duxiu Wu Yue as Zhang Guotao Bai Ke as Di Qiubai Liu Xun Zi Mo as Cai Hesen Dong Zijian as Deng Xiaoping Chen Xiao as Ren Bishi Zhang Dapeng as Liu Bocheng Bao Jianfeng as Tan Pingchuan Song Yang as Wang Shouhua Ye Xiaowei as Chen Yi Ashton Chen as Nie Rongzhen Li Xian as Luo Ronghang Li Mincheng as Zhou Yiqun Wang Zhao as Tan Zheng Li Qin as Yang Kaihui Song Jia as Soong Ching-ling Guan Xiaotong as Deng Yingchao Ma Yili as Xiang Jingyu Zhou Dongyu as Fan Jiaxia Feng Wenjuan as Peng Yuanhua Wang Qinxiang as Zhang Zuolin Han Geng as Zhang Xueliang Wang Ting as Si Lie Michael Chen as Si Li Cao Kefan Daniel Wu as Hu Hanming Wallace Huo as Chiang Kai-shek Zhang Tianai as Soong Mei-ling Zhang Junhan as Chen Lifu Yu Shaoqun as Wang Jingwei William Chan as Triad boss Zhang Hanyu as Du Yuesheng Zhou Yiwei Yu Ailei as Zhang Fakui Marc Ma as Zhao Fusheng Tony Yang as Qian Dajun Huang Shang-Ho Joseph Cheng as Yu Jishi Lu Han as Lian luo yuan (Liaison Officer) Tong Ruihuan as Zeng Zhongming Zheng Kai Winston Chao Liu Zhibing Alex Fong Tang Baoqiang Ma Zhengqiang Wang Zhifei
Release Critical response On July 25, 2017, film director Ye Daying (), the grandson of General Ye Ting, criticized the film on Sina Weibo as follows: "The revolutionary history is seriously entertaining. It is a reproach and distortion of the revolutionary history." Ye Daying also sent an open letter to the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT), which was signed by more than 25 revolutionary successors, many of them are generations of higher military officials. They demanded an apology to their family from the producer.
The page of the film on Douban, the leading film review website in China, has forbidden any rating or comment by its users since July 2017.建军大业 . Douban.
Asian release This film was only released in Southeast Asia within Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, and Estonia before the ASEAN international film exhibit.
Soundtrack
Awards and nominations Award Category Nominee Result Ref.9th Macau International Movie Festival Best Picture The Founding of an Army Best Director Andrew Lau Best Supporting Actor Zhang Yixing 9th China Film Director's Guild Awards Best Film The Founding of an Army 37th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Visual Effects Victor Wong, Eman Tse 23rd Huading AwardsBest FilmThe Founding of an Army 25th Beijing College Student Film Festival Jury Award 14th Changchun Film Festival Best Original Music Score Chen Guangrong, Chen Zhiyi 34th Hundred Flowers AwardsBest PictureThe Founding of an Army Outstanding PictureBest WritingHan Sanping, Huang Jianxin, Dong Zhe, Zhao NingyuBest ActorZhu YawenBest Actress Li QinBest Supporting ActorMa TianyuBest Supporting ActressZhang Tian'ai
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