An odd piece of Chinese Communist Party propaganda that chronicles andcelebrates China's development of nuclear weapons. Frightening in its adhesionto the party-line, this drama documents the Chinese government's decision toenter the arms race due to a self-proclaimed threat of insecurity after WWII, the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War. They hire a MIT-trained Chinese patriot to head the project, but there is a huge snag - his wife's estranged father is a capitalist. Chilling" (The Village Voice). In Mandarin with" Chen Guoxing---China---1999---120 mins.Directed by: Guoxing, ChenRunning time: 120Year: 1999English
