Peng Ning

Sun and Man

With the birth of New China, a husband-and-wife pair of Overseas Chinese painters resolve to return to the embrace of their motherland, and their child is born under the five-starred red flag. But these Overseas Chinese patriots are persecuted in various political campaigns and their daughter subject to discrimination from childhood. The male lead freezes to death as a fugitive and draws a giant question mark in the snow before dying. The daughter emigrates following the Cultural Revolution; when her relatives try to stop her, she says: "You love the motherland, but does the motherland love you?" Based on a script by Bai Hua, SUN AND MAN was completed in 1981 but permanently shelved following high-level criticism and a public campaign against its "anti-Party" character. The film is said to survive in the studio archive but has never been publicly screened. A Taiwanese adaptation of the script (with some modifications) was released in 1982 under the English title PORTRAIT OF A FANATIC.

The Wind of Early Summer

"The Wind of Early Summer" is a colorful wide-screen feature film that reflects the side-by-side progress of two young men and women on the road of life after the "Gang of Four" was crushed in 1976. Yang Xiaozhen, who made a name for himself as a piano player at a young age, was in great pain because his right hand was injured and he could no longer play the piano because he worked in a scrap company. Later, with the encouragement of the young man Fu Ming, the fire of hope was rekindled in her frustrated heart...

The Wind of Early Summer

"The Wind of Early Summer" is a colorful wide-screen feature film that reflects the side-by-side progress of two young men and women on the road of life after the "Gang of Four" was crushed in 1976. Yang Xiaozhen, who made a name for himself as a piano player at a young age, was in great pain because his right hand was injured and he could no longer play the piano because he worked in a scrap company. Later, with the encouragement of the young man Fu Ming, the fire of hope was rekindled in her frustrated heart...