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Jan 24, 2012 · Chinese war epic The Flowers of War failed to gain a highly-coveted Oscar nomination, but the historical drama has resonated with domestic audiences, Bethan Jinkinson reports.
Feb 15, 2024 · Sky has confirmed that it will be showing Based on a True Story season 2, following the success of its first run on Sky Max and NOW.
[1] [2] [3] The film is based on a novella by Geling Yan, 13 Flowers of Nanjing, inspired by the diary of Minnie Vautrin. [4] The story is set in Nanjing, China, during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in the Second Sino-Japanese War. A group of escapees, finding sanctuary in a church compound, try to survive the Japanese atrocities. [5] [6]
Dec 16, 2011 · Mr. Zhang’s historical epic, retitled “The Flowers of War,” had its premiere in China on Dec. 11, opened on Wednesday in the United States and, as part of what seems to be a campaign by China to...
Dec 16, 2011 · The latest feature from internationally heralded Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, The Flowers of War, is not a tale of soldiers and strategies, but rather of the women and children caught in the crossfire of war.
The Flowers of War. Written by Geling Yan Nicky Harman (trans.) Review by Phyllis T. Smith. In 1937, the Japanese capture Nanking, China. An expatriate American priest, Father Engelmann, hopes his church will be respected as a safe, neutral zone.
Jun 6, 2022 · Yan Geling’s The Flowers of War 金 陵十三 钗 [Jinling shisan chai] is based on a true story of vulnerable parochial schoolgirls whose lives intersect in a Catholic cathedral with the lives of a local cadre of prostitutes. The two groups became trapped in the cathedral during the sudden and brutal occupation during the 1938 Nanking Massacre.
