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Massacre documentary "Nanking" attracts young and old in Nanjing (3) |
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16:12, July 22, 2007 |
Guttentag adopted the angle of a handful of brave westerners who worked in horrific circumstances to save the lives of several hundred thousand Chinese civilians.
Guttentag and his crew visited six countries over a period of eight months to collect video, audio and written materials.
The crew interviewed 240 Japanese soldiers still alive, six of whom appeared in the film, the youngest being almost 90 years old.
Guttentag also interviewed 30 Nanjing massacre survivors. He was still haunted by the story of Zhang Zhiqiang, who was only 9 years old in 1937. After his mother was killed by a Japanese soldier, he still remembered his baby brother trying to suck the breast of his mother covered in blood.
The film has received numerous plaudits including an accolade from Reuters who called it a "beautifully crafted film...(that) honors the highest calling of documentary filmmaking."
Beijing''s cinemas have 8 copies of the film and Shanghai has ordered 18.
But so far no Japanese distributors have approached the Nanking production team to express an interest in distributing the documentary in Japan.
"Our film isn''t an anti-Japanese film. It is an anti-war film," said Guttentag.
Source: Xinhua
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