Nie Er (1962)
1h 55m
Running Time
April 30, 1962Release Date
Plot.
Shot in gorgeous color, this fascinating communist flipside to fifties Hollywood music biopics chronicles the life and tragic early death of Nie Er, the composer of the PRC’s national anthem.
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Cast & Crew.
Zhao Dan
Nie Er
Ruifang Zhang
Zheng Leidian
Jun Jiang
Su Ping
Yongping Sun
Xiao long
Deng Nan
Lao Jiang
Zhao Shuyin
Jiang Sao
Wang Bei
Wan Qianhong
Xia Tian
Zhao Meinong
Gao Zheng
Li Tianyin
Han Tao
Cabaret boss
Huang Zongying
Feng Feng
Hong Xia
Gao Tianren
Guan Hongda
Xiao Chou
Han Fei
Sun Ying
Chen Shu
Qian Yele
Gao Bo
Kuang Wentao
Xinghuo Zhong
Zhang Shu
Min Zheng
Film company manager
Hua Yang
Zhang Weiyuan
Li Tian-Ji
Examiner
Yu Fei
Military police
Mao Lu
Pseudo mayor
Wen Xiying
Old artist
Baoluo Li
Wounded soldier
Shu Zhen
Qian Yele
Sujiang Wang
Writer
Ling Yue
Writer
Zheng Jun-li
Writer / Director
Ge Yan
Music
Huang Shaofen
Director of Photography
Congzhou Luo
Director of Photography
Chaosheng Zhu
Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 30, 1962
Original Name聂耳
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 55m
Genres
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Wiki.
Nie Er, formerly romanized as Nieh Erh, is a 1959 biopic of the Chinese musician Nie Er, a Communist Party member who drowned in Japan during his flight to Russia away from Nationalist oppression. The story centers on his composition of "The March of the Volunteers", the theme song to the 1935 drama Children of Troubled Times which was later adopted as the national anthem of the People's Republic of China. The movie was released to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the PRC's founding.