Assembly
Director: Feng Xiaogang
Genre: War film, World cinema, Action/Adventure, Drama, Chinese Movies
Year: 2007
Country: Hong Kong, China, South Korea
Language: Standard Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese
Starring: Hu Jun, Fan Liao, Wang Baoqiang, Quan Ren, Deng Chao, Zhang Hanyu, Yuan Wenkang, Yan Tang, Ming Hu
Assembly (simplified Chinese: 集结号; traditional Chinese: 集結號; pinyin: Jí jié hào) is a Chinese Anti-War film written by Liu Heng and directed by Feng Xiaogang. It is regarded as an Epic and the finest film ever made in China. It stars Zhang Hanyu, Deng Chao, Yuan Wenkang, Tang Yan, Wang Baoqiang, Liao Fan, Hu Jun, Ren Quan and Li Naiwen.
The film was first released on December 20, 2007. It is among the first Mainland-produced films to portray the Chinese Civil War in a realistic style. The film is an adaptation of the novel Guan Si (A Legal Case), which is based on the real-life account of a veteran army captain upholding his company's honor.
The film won the 2008 Hundred Flowers Awards and the 2009 Golden Rooster Awards for Best Film.
The story begins in 1948 during the Huaihai Campaign of the Chinese Civil War. Gu Zidi (谷子地), a PLA captain, commands his Ninth Company in siege to a town defended by KMT forces. After being ambushed, the company captures the town with severe casualties. The brutal death of his political officer to an enemy field gun in the fight causes Gu to order the shooting of the surrendering KMT prisoners, though the command is met mainly with refusal. As
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