Release Date

03 Oct, 1993

Runtime

02:20: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

More preoccupied with "history" than Wu's other works, My Time in the Red Guards is a record of his fascination with the missed moment, Mao's Cultural Revolution. In 1966, the Red Guards ironically represented the official avant-garde, a movement carried forward by youth determined to become heroes of the Revolution. Wu interviews people who had joined the Red Guards as high schoolers, most now successful professionals, some Party members. The miscalculations and cruelties of this extreme cultural campaign are spread out before us, detailed by personal recollection and further illustrated by old agit-prop newsreels. Misgivings and fond remembrance vie for position as the interviewees seem to confuse the nostalgia of youthful action with the excesses of historical fact.

Original Title

1966,我的红卫兵时代

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Wu Wenguang

Hao Zhiqiang

Li Xiaoshan

Liang Xiaoyan

王兵

Jinchuan Duan

Zhao Xiaoyuan

Wen Hui

Qiao Yanlin

Wu Wenguang