The Battle of Dingjunshan (film)

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The mountain Dingjun (also: The Battle of Dingjunshan ) from 1905 is the first Chinese film. It is the cinematic document of a staging of the Beijing Opera, which deals with the Battle of Mount Dingjun.

Background

After first foreign films dominated the Chinese market, dedicated to the producer Ren Jingfeng Liu Zhonglun as a cameraman. He bought at a German dealer a manual film camera and directed the popular Opera in the open air. At this time, no sync sound could be recorded, Ren focused on action -heavy scenes like " Asking For Fight ", " Fighting with a Sword" and "Face to Face Fight".