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Tue 09 Sep 2009Star-studded film honours China's communist revolt
THERE HAS never been a propaganda movie quite like The Founding of a Great Republic, which documents the time six decades ago when Chairman Mao Zedong’s raggle-taggle band of farmer revolutionaries overcame Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist KMT to establish their communist revolution.
The film includes a phalanx of top movie stars, including action heroes Jackie Chan and Jet Li, actors Leon Lai and Donnie Yen, actresses Zhang Ziyi and Zhao Wei, plus a host of directors, comedy stars and even journalists.
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