A Taiwanese studio made a film about the Cultural Revolution in 1981. China still will not let its own people watch it, rate it, or argue about it.
《皇天后土》 (The Coldest Winter in Peking) was pulled in Hong Kong after one day. On the mainland it was never released. Douban keeps the page and kills the comments.
Beijing’s own 1981 verdict called those ten years a catastrophe. It never published a death toll. Independent counts from local records put deaths around 1–1.6 million and the persecuted in the tens of millions.
The Blue Kite and To Live were banned for showing the same decade. Farewell My Concubine was cut before it could stay in cinemas.
If the Party line is “we already settled this,” why is the film still untouchable 45 years later?
A government that can narrate its own famine and purge does not need a foreign studio to do it. One that cannot, bans the foreign studio too. https://t.co/m2zPHuFdEG