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Zhu Xiao-Mei: How Bach Defeated Mao

Directed by Paul Smaczny
2017    59m
Documentary, History, Music
6.9
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How Bach Defeated Mao is a quiet but compelling film about the tremendous power of music. It is a very personal film about the pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei, who personally experienced the Cultural Revolution and learned how art can be political, how owning a piano can be dangerous and how playing one of Bach's Inventions can be potentially deadly. And yet, it is also at the same time a film about a new China, a country that is undergoing a process of change and is searching for meaning.
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Cast of Zhu Xiao-Mei: How Bach Defeated Mao
  • Dan WeskerNarrator
  • Zhu Xiao-MeiSelf
  • Michel MollardSelf - music essayist
  • Kexin ZhangSelf - concert promoter
  • Yin ChengzongSelf
  • ZuoyinSelf - Zhu Xiao-Mei's former co-student
  • Zhou GuangrenSelf - Zhu Xiao-Mei's former teacher

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