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Searching for Lin Zhao's soul / director, Hu Jie.
- Format:
- Video
- Standardized Title:
- Xun zhao Lin Zhao de ling hun (Motion picture)
- 寻找林昭的灵魂 (Motion picture)
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lin, Zhao, 1932-1968.
- Lin, Zhao.
- Political prisoners--China.
- Political prisoners.
- Political crimes and offenses--China.
- Political crimes and offenses.
- Dissenters--China.
- Dissenters.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
- China.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (115 min.)) : sound, black and white and color
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : dGenerate Films, [2005]
- Language Note:
- In Mandarin with English subtitles.
- Summary:
- This landmark documentary reveals the tragic life of a gifted young woman who was executed for speaking out during the height of Chairman Mao's rule. Lin Zhao, a top student from Peking University, was imprisoned for defending students and leaders persecuted during Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Movement in the late 1950s. A gifted writer, Lin composed endless articles and poems from her cell. Forbidden to use pens, she wrote with a hairpin dipped in her own blood. In 1968 she was executed, her tragic life lost to the margins of history.
- Credits:
- Editing, Hu Jie ; cinematography, Hu Jie, Ha Min.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed January 6, 2026).
- Publisher Number:
- df-linzha Docuseek2
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