Yang Ban Xi

A documentary about Yang Ban Xi: The 8 Model Works. the director Yan-Ting Yuen revisits the country's recent past to explore the history and legacy of one of the strangest byproducts of totalitarian madness: the revolutionary spectacular. With the onset of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, the government allowed only about a dozen revolutionary operas, or Yang Ban Xi, to be performed on stage and on screen; the most popular became known as the eight model works.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• yan
• ting
• yuen
• yang
• ban
• xi
• model
• works

[platopraat]

Q:Where one could watch the complete movie?

[grubelsucht]

A good metaphor for communism: Everyone dances in step to the same old tune. A Jewish joke on the poor and downtrodden.