"Red Cherry" is a film produced and distributed by Beijing Orange Sky Jiahe Film and Television Production Co., Ltd., directed by Ye Daying and starring Guo Keyu and Xiaoling Xu. It was released in Hongkong, China on 1996 1 month1day.
The film tells the story of 1940 winter, when China orphans Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman were sent to Ivanov International Children's Hospital in the suburbs of Moscow to study. Chuchu was taken in by the Red Cross. At night, she drew a stick from the bonfire and angrily branded the fascist eagle emblem on her back.
Film evaluation
"Red Cherry" is one of the few films that recorded China as the protagonist in the European battlefield of World War II, which made China appear in the world map of World War II. When the young Chuchu saw the "fascist imprint" left on her back, all her sufferings emerged one by one, and the meaning at the end of the film was very far-reaching.
The director of "Red Cherry" successfully used artistic methods such as time-space comparison, parallel narration and comparative montage, which made this anti-Japanese war theme film achieve a breathtaking tragic effect in the contrast collision.
Contrastive realism highlights the contrast between good and evil; In contrast, it depicts the sharp collision between civilization and barbarism; In the comparative definition, it creates a tragic and comedy atmosphere that makes people reflect. It has formed the true, strange and new artistic charm of the film Red Cherry, thus opening up a tragic aesthetic world with shocking power (film review).