2千年続いた皇帝支配を打破した辛亥革命。日本軍の降伏式、若者達が暴走した文化大革命、民主化を叫ぶ若者達の血で染まった天安門事件。激動の百年を天安門を舞台に描く。
中国共産党の結党から百年。“革命”の血と涙を発掘映像で描く。ソ連が派遣したカメラマンが撮影したカラー映像は、天安門で建国式典に臨む毛沢東を鮮やかな色彩で捉えている。激動百年の舞台となってきたのが天安門だった。革命の父・孫文の肖像が掲げられ、終戦時には20万の人々が見守る中、日本軍の降伏式が行われた。文化大革命では、暴走する若者の熱狂であふれた。そして天安門事件では、民主化を叫ぶ若者達の血で染まる。
One hundred years have passed since the founding of the Communist Party of China. This film depicts the blood and tears of the "revolution" through excavated footage. Color footage taken by a cameraman dispatched by the Soviet Union shows Mao Zedong attending the founding ceremony at Tiananmen Square in vivid colors. Tiananmen Square has been the stage for a hundred years of upheaval. The portrait of Sun Yat-sen, the father of the revolution, was raised, and at the end of the war, the Japanese surrender ceremony was held with 200,000 people watching. During the Cultural Revolution, it was filled with the frenzy of runaway youth. And in the Tiananmen Square incident, it was stained with the blood of young people shouting for democracy.
