November In 2011

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  Two Stage Sisters/ Wutai Jiemei ( The People's Republic of China 1965 p.c-Shanghai Film Studio; d-Xie Jin)

   This film is one of the most famous and entertaining socialist realist films. Shot in a glossy Chinese Technicolor and set in the 1930s, it opens during a village opera. An escaped child bride called Chunhua hides backstage. The troupe leader's daughter, Yuehong, takes pity on her, and they give her rufuge. The class status of entertainers is not as pure as that of workers, farmers or soldiers, who were the preferred protagonists of socialist realist cinema. But the opera world does provide more colourful stories. After they grow up, Yuehong and Chunhua become stars, licensing a glimpse into the glamorous lost world of pre-revolutionary Shanghai. But while Yuehong is corrupted by their manager's gift of furs and jewels, Chunhua is introduced to left-wing culture by a Communist journalist she meets at an exhibition. Eventually, political differences cause the sisters to fall out. But after the revolution, when Chunhua has become the leader of a revolutionary song and dance troupe, they are reunited. In the final scence, the sisters float downstream on a riverboat. Chunhua puts her arm around Yuehong's shoulder and says: " Let us remould ourselves earnestly and always perform revolutionary operas." Throughout the film, shot and reverse-shot sutures the audience into identification with Chunhua, as do devices such as superimpositions rendering her memories. Highly coloured melodramatic devices such as exaggerated villainy and urgent music elicit the appropriate emotions and underscore every point. This is pedagogical cinema writ large. Yet it was banned at the outset of the cultural revolution in 1966 because it was not pure enough, and it waited to b discovered in the late 1970s.

Different from the Ding Jin Shan, it is another series opera which is famous in Hennan Province, it is called " Shaoxing Opera," it happens that there is a similar case, it is also changed to be a film with the same name, however the most different point is moving from stage to screen.