"On the occasion of the New Year, everyone is far away in Berlin to attend the film festival, and send special greetings and respects. I wish Chinese movies better and better, I wish you good results, and I wish you a good New Year in Berlin!" Zhang Hongsen said in an official voice on the other end of the phone.

Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu were originally planning to go to the cinema to watch Wakamatsu Takaji's "Tao Worm". Film Festival chairman Kosri said that the heroine of this movie has a very strong performance and is Zhang Jingchu's biggest competitor. Zhang Jingchu wants to see how strong this opponent is. Zhang Ran heard that this movie is an anti-war movie about World War II, and also wants to see how it was filmed.

However, as soon as he went downstairs, Zhang Ran received a call from the Film Bureau Zhang Hongsen to express condolences to all the members of "One Person Decoration" who were celebrating the Chinese New Year abroad, and asked Zhang Ran to greet Chinese filmmakers attending the Berlin Film Festival on behalf of the Film Bureau.

Zhang Ran is familiar with Zhang Hongsen and speaks casually, and jokes: "Director Zhang, are you preparing the manuscript? Why does it have the flavor of recitation!"

"Be serious, I am talking to you on behalf of the organization!" But after saying this, Zhang Hongsen himself laughed and asked, "I heard that "One Person Decoration" won the highest score in Berlin in history. This time, he should be able to win the big prize?"

Zhang Ran said without any modesty: "It's not a big problem to win the award, but it's really hard to say whether you can win the big prize. The key depends on the judges."

Zhang Hongsen smiled and said, "This time there is Yu Nan among the judges. With his own people here, the chance of winning the award is much greater."

Zhang Ran didn't think so: "Yu Nan must take care of Wang Quan'an's "Reunion". What's the relationship?"

Zhang Hongsen said: "Aren't Yu Nan and Wang Quan'an broken up?"

Zhang Ran was stunned, then laughed and said, "Director Zhang, I didn't expect you to be so gossipy too. Do you usually talk about the gossip of the world or the eight groups of Douban?"

Zhang Hongsen also laughed: "You guy always like Hu Lili, I won't tell you anymore!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu walked to the cinema where "Tamon" premiered. After entering the screening hall, Zhang Ran glanced and found that most of the audience were men. He couldn't help but smile and shook his head. Ruomatsu Takashi was the four major Japanese film masters and was famous for making pink films. Many male audiences should have come for this.

Japanese anti-war movies have a particularly obvious feature, which is that they like to express themselves from the perspective of women. Because as the most direct victim group in the war, women often suffer far more harm than men.

The same is true for Wakamatsu Takaji's movie "Tao Worm". At the beginning of the movie, the heroine Shiroko had to accept that her husband Kurokawa Kurokawa, who had lost his limbs in the war and was shaped like a caterpillar. What is ridiculous is that this completely unbearable body was regarded as the "God of War" by the Japanese government and was worshipped and respected by others. Shiroko kept swaying between the "God of War" Kurokawa and the disabled Kurokawa until the illusory sense of glory was completely defeated by the cruel reality.

Kurokawa Kurokawa was originally a very strong person and often beat his wife. Now that he has lost his limbs, he not only has to be angry with his wife, but also forced him to go to a room by his wife. At this time, Kurokawa Kurokawa's face flashed many times before his eyes. The role change from rape to being raped made Kurokawa experience the panic and helplessness of the victim. Wakamatsu Takaji wanted to achieve some degree of thinking in this way, which gave the movie a certain depth.

It can be said that the entire concept of the movie is quite good, but the director filmed it too roughly. There are too many meals and bed scenes in the movie. Most of these contents are repeated. In addition to making people feel tired and depressed, they cannot greatly touch people.

There are many ** contents in the movie, and the heroine Terajima Nin also has naked shots; but what these contents bring to the audience is not the erotic stimulation, but extreme depression, and even make people feel perverted. During the screening, the audience kept leaving the scene, and the sound of "slap" chairs kept ringing. People who were holding the pink movie to watch this movie must be disappointed.

After the movie was finished, there were sparse applause on the spot, demonstrating everyone's attitude towards the movie.

When leaving the venue, Zhang Ran saw Wang Wenjun, a reporter who interviewed him yesterday, and called her and asked, "Are you going to attend the launch conference of "Tamon"?"

When Wang Wenjun saw Zhang Ran calling him, he felt a little excited. Was he going to do my exclusive interview, so he said, "I'm going to go to the press conference. Director Zhang, what's wrong with you?"

Zhang Ran said directly: "When you arrive at the press conference, you ask Takaji Wakamatsu, the filming of this movie is about anti-war, so why do you use the subtitles like "Japan-China War" at the beginning of the movie?"

When Wang Wenjun heard Zhang Ran say this, he immediately laughed: "When I was watching a movie, I felt it was difficult to accept the statement of 'Japan-China War' and planned to question it at the press conference. I didn't expect you to ask me this question too."

Zhang Ran was stunned and smiled: "It seems that I'm such an extravagant move, so I won't disturb you anymore. Go to the press conference quickly!"

After leaving the cinema, Zhang Jingchu asked Zhang Ran: "What do you think of the heroine?"

Zhang Ran looked at Zhang Jingchu and said deliberately: "Have a big breast." Seeing Zhang Jingchu staring at him with murderous eyes, he quickly said: "Just kidding, Terajima Ninja's performance is indeed quite strong, the whole performance is clear, the completion is extremely high, and there are more nakedness. As an actor, he sacrifices more and is indeed a very strong opponent."

Zhang Jingchu looked at Zhang Ran with her head tilted and asked, "Then do you think we can win?"

Zhang Ran thought about it and gave a positive answer: "It is more difficult to perform less than this character and the completion is also very high, but from the perspective of performance, it is definitely ours better, but you also know that there are too many variables in winning awards in the film festival, so it is hard to say."

Zhang Jingchu must have really hoped to win the award, but she also knew very well whether she could win the award was too difficult. She held Zhang Ran's arm and said with a smile: "This is enough with you. Let's go shopping!"

In the evening, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu were preparing to participate in the premiere of the movie "In the Clouds". This movie directed by Jason Retman and led by George Clooney was enthusiastically sought after by the media and fans. The premiere was crowded.

Zhang Ran saw Wang Wenjun at the entrance, waved to her, and asked, "What did Ruomatsu Takaji say?"

Wang Wenjun jogged over, greeted Zhang Ran, and said with a smile: "After the press conference started, before I could ask, a Turkish reporter asked this question first. He said that when the film started to use subtitles to describe this war, the term "Japan-China War" was used. This statement seemed to be in a state of equality between the two sides of the confrontation, but the actual situation was that Japan invaded China. Is this title inappropriate?

After being questioned, Takaji Wakamatsu's attitude was still quite sincere. He said, "I didn't realize this before, but when I heard you say this, I immediately realized that this wording is indeed inappropriate, and I regret using this wording at the beginning of the film. Takaji Wakamatsu also said that the protagonist of the movie is not a hero, but a murderer, and war is a collection of various murders. All wars are sinful. Japan was taught by two atomic bombs in the war, but today's Japanese are beginning to forget history, and militarism is in its infancy. We must ensure that history will not repeat itself."

Zhang Ran was not surprised by Wakamatsu Takaji's attitude. This person himself belonged to the left-wing director: "Many of the older Japanese directors have experienced wars, many of them have anti-wars, and have also made works such as "Proof of the World", which have truly courage and conscience, but most of these old directors have passed away. However, after the Square Agreement, Japan's economy stagnated, and the right-leaning trend in Japanese society has become more and more serious. It is reflected in Japanese movies, which is manifested as downplaying the harm and reflection of the war, emphasizing that they are the victims of the war, always saying how miserable they are, but never thinking about why they are miserable."

Wang Wenjun nodded repeatedly: "Yes, Japan has made many movies that say they are victims, saying they are victims of the atomic bomb all day long, and fiddling with the United States to apologize for the atomic ballistics. We should make more movies like Jews and tell the truth of the world!"

Zhang Ran didn't say anything, just nodded silently. This is the sense of responsibility that every Chinese director should have!

During the film screening, Zhang Ran was looking at the screen and was in a daze, but his mind was not on the movie. He remembered Zhang Chunru. After Zhang Chunru committed suicide in 2004, Zhang Ran decided to make a movie about her. Five years have passed, and Zhang Ran has not yet figured out how to shoot this movie and how to use it.

However, Zhang Ran was not idle in the past five years and collected a lot of relevant information. If the collected information was not increased by one point, his respect for Zhang Chunru would increase by one point. Every time he reads the information about the massacre, Zhang Ran would feel uncomfortable for a few days, and the feeling of powerlessness and despair began to last for a long time. Even if a man is like this, how courage does a weak woman need to face the darkest chapter in human history!

Zhang Ran remembered that Zhang Chunru had gone to Germany to find Rabe's descendants and persuaded them to let "Rabe's Diary" reappear. He felt that since he had arrived in Germany, he should also meet Rabe's descendants and talk to them.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ran told Zhang Jingchu that he would not watch it anymore. Zhang Jingchu also asked more questions and followed him out of the cinema.

Standing at the intersection, Zhang Ran called Diet Cosrick, the chairman of the film festival: "I want to ask you for help. Can you help me find out where Mr. Chalabe's tomb is and where his descendants are?"

When Cosrick heard Rabe, he asked, "Rabe? Are you talking about the Rabe who wrote "Rabe Diary"?"

Zhang Ran replied: "Yes, it's the Rabe who wrote "Rabe Diary"."

Cosrick once talked to Flory Gallenberg about the film preparations with the director of "Rabe Diary", and knew a little about Rabe's situation, saying: "I don't know where the Rabe cemetery is. It seems to be in the suburbs of the city. However, I heard from Flory Gallenberg that Rabe's grandson seemed to be working in medical work in Heidelberg. In this way, I will help you contact Rabe's descendants. After the contact is complete, I will call you."

With Cosrick's help, it would be much better than Zhang Ran's eyes and looking for someone, and he said gratefully: "Thank you, Diet, then I'll wait for your news!"

Just as Cosrick was about to hang up the phone, he suddenly remembered a question: "Are you going to make a movie about the Holocaust?"

Zhang Ran did not hide it: "I plan to shoot Zhang Chunru's biopic, which is the author of "Nanjing Atrocities: The Forgotten Massacre", and "Rabe Diary" was discovered by her."

Cosrik immediately said: "This biopic of Zhang Chunru is booked in Berlin. Such a movie is the most suitable one to be in Berlin."

The Berlin Film Festival is the most political among the three major ones. Zhang Chunru's biopic is indeed the most suitable for him to be in Berlin. Zhang Ran couldn't help laughing: "The content involved in the movie is too heavy. I am not ready yet. I won't film it in the short term. It may take five years or ten years to film it!"

Cosrick smiled and said, "I believe you will definitely take it, and you will take it very well!"
Chapter completed!