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Fall 2009 Documentary Film Series: Storm Under the Sun
October 03, 2009
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM,
Auditorium A, Angell Hall,
435 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Host Department: Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
A film by Peng Xiaolian and S. Louisa Wei; Hong Kong, 2007; 139 minutes (Mandarin with English subtitles)
Further Information
Storm Under the Sun was inspired by the memories of film director Peng Xiaolian. In 1955 when she was just two, her father, Peng Boshan, was arrested as part of a national campaign directed at the “counterrevolutionary Hu Feng clique.” Peng Boshan (1910-1968) was at the time head of the Ministry of Propaganda in Shanghai and since the 1930s had been a devoted revolutionary activist in the communist movement. His tragic “mistake” was to have befriended Hu Feng, a literary critic and theorist who promoted a vision of literature at odds with Maoist dogma. Imprisoned until 1957, Peng Boshan was exiled to various remote regions and tragically died during the early years of the Cultural Revolution. Her memories of a mostly absent father who could never be more than a stranger to her was the stimulus for the making of this moving and powerful documentary.
