In order to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the documentary "Shangganling" will be broadcast on January 2, 2024, with a total of three episodes, each about 50 minutes, telling the famous battle of Shangganling in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, of which the exclusive image of the day of the Shangganling War will be released for the first time.
Rare files. The Battle of Shangganling was a classic battle in which the Chinese People's Volunteers defeated the strong with the weak. In 2023, the documentary "Shangganling" will be jointly produced by the Documentary Center of Shanghai Radio and Television Station, BesTV Network TV Technology Development Co., Ltd., and Bilibili. After the digitization of the film, the director found that in this 10-minute original film, not only the footage of the US army's shelling of the Shangganling area on the day of the war, but also the wounded soldiers and mountains of shell casings at the US military field medical station were recorded, which shows the fierceness of the battle at that time. The documentary "Shangganling" uses a lot of precious historical images of the first news documentary film studio to reflect the battle and life of the volunteers, and these newly discovered real images are presented for the first time in the documentary "Shangganling".
The film invited the team that had participated in the special effects production of the movie "Changjin Lake" to make a three-dimensional sand table and a three-dimensional reproduction of some battle scenes, and the director team also joined the special effects team to apply virtual motion capture technology to the documentary, and invited professional military action actors to reproduce the innovative tactics invented by veterans of the Volunteer Army "making dumplings" and "bombing in the air". At the same time, the documentary is inspired by the popular episode "My Motherland" from the old movie "Shangganling", and uses different orchestrations to play the theme of the documentary**.
Detail. In addition to filming and interviewing in China, the film crew also went to South Korea, Russia, and the United States to find story clues and archival materials. Through the descendants of veterans and military history experts, the director team obtained a number of precious archival materials and battlefield ** of the Shangganling Campaign, and added many vivid details. In order to tell the very classic artillery battle in the battle, in addition to shooting various types of artillery used by the volunteers in the Military Museum of the Chinese Revolution, the film crew also went to the Museum of the Russian ** Armed Forces in Moscow to shoot BM-13 rocket artillery, which is the famous "Katyusha". Since the Shangganling area is still a military restricted area, in the summer of 2023, the film crew will also follow the descendants of the martyrs of the Volunteer Army and a team of experts to the inter-Korean border to pay respects and record the touching moments.
After the director team of the documentary "Shangganling" is complete, they also interviewed and filmed many young people and the stories of "Shangganling" to join the documentary, and at the same time used scientific and technological means to show history, such as making miniatures to restore the classic tunnel warfare in Shangganling;Restore the tactics of the volunteer army through 3D simulation and virtual motion capture technology;Recreate the style of the volunteer sharpshooter with shooting games, etc. Sun Jiayi, a girl born in the 80s, is the initiator of the "I come to find relatives for the martyrs" public welfare project, she once led the volunteer team to find the relatives of the martyrs Wang Wancheng and Zhu Youguang who died in the Battle of Shangganling, and the documentary crew also followed them to the martyrs' hometowns and recorded many moving stories.
Zhu Hong, the chief producer of the documentary "Shangganling", said: "Many martyrs who died in the Battle of Shangganling were in their youth, and the documentary "Shangganling" also added the perspective of contemporary young people, paying tribute to youth with youth, telling everyone that young people after more than 70 years have not forgotten history and heroes. The film will be broadcast on Dragon TV every Tuesday at 22:00, and will be broadcast simultaneously on BesTV's IPTV Internet TV cable TV screen and Bilibili. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Wu Xiang).