Zhang Ga the Soldier Boy小兵张嘎
Director：Cui Wei
Actor：An Jiwu
             Li Jianwu
Genres: Teenage-Anti-Japanese War
Release Date: 1963  (China)

Description /Synopsis:
The story is based on the backdrop of the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War with character Zhang Ga in the middle of the chaos along with the Eighth Route Army. The real story is based on the actual person Yan Xiufeng, whose childhood name was Gazi. He was born in Baiyangdian in the Hebei Province.

Review:
I was born in 1972, the same year as the character Ling Ling in Electric Shadows. Her story is not my story, but I do have fond memories from my childhood of open-air movie shows. I grew up at a time when both material and spiritual things were severely lacking in China. It was a time before television and the Internet; we didn’t even have telephones. And yet I think back on it as a happy time, largely because we went to the open-air movie shows so often. The range of films on offer was very narrow; they were mostly local political and ‘revolutionary’ films. But a passion for films was planted in my mind. I never dreamed that I’d become a film director one day.