The White-haired Girl is a drama film produced by Northeast Film Studio, directed by Wang Bin and Shui Hua, and starring Tian Hua, Chen Qiang, Hu Peng, Zhang Shouwei, Li Wan, and Li Imlin. The film was released on March 11, 1951 in China.
The film, adapted from the opera of the same name, tells the story of Xi'er, who, after being overrun by the landlord Huang Shiren, escapes into the deep jungle where her hair turns all white, and is later rescued by Dachun.
Creation Background:
After the peaceful liberation of Beiping in 1949, Yuan Muzhi, the director of the Motion Picture Bureau, and Chen Bole, the director of the Art Department, decided to turn the stage opera The White Haired Girl into a movie.
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Character Archetype:
White Hair Woman originated in the Jinchaji Border Region White Hair Fairy Nun folklore story of the protagonist of the main character, "Xi'er," which was persecuted by the old society and became a lesser white head, as the name implies. She was called the "White-haired Girl".
In 1945, the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Yan'an collectively produced the opera "The White-haired Girl". The opera was created at the end of the Anti-Japanese War in the 1940s in the liberated areas under the control of the Chinese ****production party, and is a work of literature and art with far-reaching historical impact.
The opera was later adapted into a variety of art forms and has endured. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the literary and artistic works created during this special period became treasures of China's intangible cultural heritage.
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