The large-scale documentary “I Love the Great Wall” was officially released on March 5. This is a panoramic 4k high-definition movie produced in Shanhaiguan District, Qinhuangdao City for the 100th anniversary of the founding of CPC, telling the story of Wang Dingguo, an old Red Army solider and Party member, and her peers as well as her followers protecting the Great Wall.
It took the film crew five years to finish this film, and they traveled more than 40,000 kilometers, involving a dozen of provinces and cities along the Great Wall, to take the rare landscapes of the Great Wall with 4k HD camera.
The film crew took pictures of the First Pass under Heaven, the Laolongtou Great Wall, the Jiaoshan Great Wall, and the Sandaoguan Great Wall in Shanhaiguan District, and obtained information such as the history, fascination, and achievements Shanhaiguan made in protecting the Great Wall over the past 3 decades, through interviewing experts, scholars and historical witnesses such as Dong Yaohui,famous expert of the Great Wall, Sun Zhisheng, president of Qinhuangdao Research Association of History and Culture, Zhang Xiaoyu, editor, chief writer and producer of the TV series “The Great Wall”, Zhou Zhilei, ancient architectural engineer who presided over the restoration of the Old Dragon’s Head Scenic Spot, and Zhang Changwang, a former technician of the People’s Liberation Army in Shanhaiguan.
Yang Dong, a professional photographer who was born in 1990s and has won many domestic and international awards, recorded the story of the senior Red Army solider Wang Dingguo and the senior expert Luo Zhewen, who have devoted to the restoration and promotion of the Great Wall; reflecting the spirit and culture of the Great Wall carried forward by the able-bodies such as the Great Wall researcher Dong Yaohui, the British Great Wall expert William Lindsay and his family, the university professor Zhao Chen, the Great Wall protector and farmer Lyu Chenggui, and young photographer Yang Dong.
The film has successively won the best documentary of the Cannes Mediterranean Film Festival and the best feature film of the “13th China Tourism TV Week” by the Chinese Television Artists Association, and was shortlisted for the outstanding film of the American Asian Film Festival, the Golden Angel Award of China-America Film Festival, the best documentary of the Milan Film Festival in Italy, the 6th San Francisco New Concept Film Festival, the Poland Eastern European Film Festival, etc.
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