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My Native Land (Chinese: 原鄉人; pinyin: Yuánxiāng rén), also called China, My Native Land, is a Mandarin-language film, released in 1980 by Ta Chung Motion Picture Corporation (大眾電影華股份有限公司, TCMPC) in Taiwan. It is a biographical film about the Hakka writer Chung Li-ho.
Native Land: Directed by Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand. With Paul Robeson, Fred Johnson, Mary George, John Rennick. Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors.
Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz's political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson's narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans' civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country.
Adapted from the short story and autobiographical experiences of Taiwanese Hakka literary writer Chung Li-ho, My Native Land tells the story of a protagonist who, due to the taboo of marrying someone with the same surname, cannot unite in marriage.
free films. indigenous people. The Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Arthouse Cinema will hold a free movie screening of three Cinemalaya and Gawad Alternatibo films: “BWAYA” (2014), “Kalimed” (2008), and “Angan-Angan” (2008), on Oct. 14, 2 p.m. at the CCP Tanghalang Manuel Conde.
Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz's political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson's narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans' civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country.
Synopsis. A combination of a documentary format and staged reenactments (influenced by the cinematic works of Sergei Eisenstein and Aleksandr Dovzhenko ), the independently produced film depicted the struggle of trade unions against union-busting corporations, their spies and contractors.
