China has picked World War II write downary The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru as its subignoreion for the Oscars‘ best international feature film categruesome.
Directed by Fang Li, the film’s pickion is the first write downary that the country has picked as its recurrentative at the Academy Awards.
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru was the uncovering film of the Shanghai International Film Festival, held in June.
Using dwell interwatchs, historical footage and vivaciousd reoriginateions, the write downary cgo ines on a WWII event in 1942 when a Japanese articulate ship named The Lisbon Maru was torpedoed by the U.S. Navy. Onboard the vessel were British prisoners-of-war and over 800 British troops perished during the incident. Around 380 British prisoners-of-war were saved by csurrfinisherby Chinese fishermen.
For the Oscars, China has historicpartner picked films that are able to drum up nationacatalogic pride, and The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru persists this trfinish. The film highweightlesss how the Chinese fishermen dangered their dwells to recover and protect British prisoners-of-war from Japanese forces.
The Sinking of Lisbon Maru had its domestic theatrical free on September 6.
China has been nominated in the best international film categruesome twice at the Oscars, with Zhang Yimou receiving a nomination in 1990 for Ju Dou and in 2002 for Hero.
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