New Mao movie starring top Hong Kong actors
On this day in 1976 Marxist revolutionary Mao Zedong died, but as China gears itself to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic, it's clear that the propaganda machine is still alive and well with an epic film - The Founding of a Republic (Jiangguo Daye) - starring the nation's biggest movie stars soon to hit cinema screens. It stars a staggering A-list of actors, including Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Stephen Chow, Donnie Yen, Zhang Ziyi, Andy Lau - the list goes on and on!
However, some reservations about the film are being voiced in the world's press. The Independent, for example, puts it right alongside some of the most extreme examples of propaganda movies of all time.
As an example of the genre, this one is up alongside Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will or Roland Emmerich's Independence Day.
Propagandist or not, it's certain to break local box office records.
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