The movie "The Eternal Wave" is based on the deeds of martyr Li Bai.
Li Bai (1910-1949), male, Han nationality, from Liuyang County, Hunan Province, was a member of the middle school. In 1930, he joined the Red Army and served as the director and political commissar of the radio station during the Long March. Later, he was transferred to Shanghai as a radio operator, engaged in telecommunications reporting. He has been ** twice, and he is unyielding. On December 29, 1948, he was arrested by the enemy for the third time, and Chiang Kai-shek personally criticized "not telling the truth, and sentenced to death." "He was killed on May 7, 1949 at the Qijia Temple in Pudong. On September 14, 2009, he was named one of the 100 heroes and models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of the People's Republic of China.
"The Eternal Wave" is directed by Wang Ping, written by Du Yin, Li Qiang, and Huang Gang, starring Sun Daolin and Yuan Xia, and premiered in China in 1958. On September 21, 2021, the 4K color restoration version of the film was unveiled at the opening ceremony of the Beijing International Film Festival;On October 6 of the same year, the restored version was released in Chinese mainland.
The film tells the story of 1938, Li Xia (played by Sun Daolin), the political commissar of the radio station in the Yan'an Liberated Area, came to Shanghai, used his identity as a businessman, and pretended to be a couple with underground party member He Lanfen (played by Yuan Xia) to carry out secret activities. The Japanese army discovered the radio station, Li Xia**, although he suffered inhuman torture, he was always tight-lipped, so that the Japanese army thought that he was only working for a commercial radio station and released him.
When the Liberation War was about to be won, the radio station was discovered by the Kuomintang, and Li Xia received a notice of emergency retreat, but at this time, he received two extremely important pieces of information, Yao Wei (played by Wang Xingang) measured the signal of Li Xia's radio station and led people to surround the place where he was.