30 November 2012, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Avenue (at East 70 Street)
New York, NY 10021
The Red Detachment of Women 红色娘子军
Dir. FU Jie 傅杰, PAN Wenzhan 潘文展. 1970. China. Color. 101 min. 35mm. With English subtitles.
Featuring XUE Jinghua 薛菁华.
During the Cultural Revolution, only a small number of state-approved yangbanxi, model operas that adhered to revolutionary ideologies, were staged. One of them was the ballet opera The Red Detachment of Women, about a peasant girl who breaks away from an oppressive landlord and joins the Red Army.
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