

aggression and aid Korea.” The stage here reflects current geopolitical realities by featuring only two recognizable combatants. There’s barely a North Korean soldier, official or flag to be seen as the PVA sweeps across the land on its mission to “resist U.S.

Though 22 nations contributed to the United Nations Command in Korea, the screenplay by Huang Jianxin (“Mao Zedong 1949”) and Lan Xiaolong only has U.S. The decisive two-week campaign - known in the West as the Battle of Chosin Reservoir - forced UN forces to retreat south of the 38th parallel and initiated a war of attrition that lasted until the armistice of 1953, which remains in place today. This very old-fashioned production depicts a string of military engagements during the winter of 1950, when soldiers from China’s newly-named People’s Volunteer Army entered North Korea.
