“Youth”
A Chinese film of the Cultural Revolution, the Sino-Vietnam War, and the aftermath.
Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Ave (at McAllister), Room 206, San Francisco
Friday, December 13, at 6 pm.*
The Chinese movie, "Youth," is about a Chinese Army dance troupe and what happens to its members. The film begins during the Cultural Revolution, then in the second part moves to the Sino - Vietnam war, a month long border war between China and Viet Nam that happened after the American war in Viet Nam. The final part of the film occurs in the 1990's, when the veterans come home, the country has gone capitalist, and others are getting rich while the combat vets struggle with wounds both physical and psychological.
The movie is based on a semi-autobiographical novel by a Chinese army veteran of that war, and the producer of the film was also a Chinese army dance troupe veteran. In a sense, this might be vaguely compared to Oliver Stone's movies about the American war in Viet Nam.
Veterans for Peace will show the movie and a couple of our American combat veterans will talk afterwards and compare their war and coming home experience to the Chinese veterans' experience as portrayed in the film.
Film trailer: https://www.youtube.
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