Director: Zheng Junli

Country/Region: China

Synopsis: This is a 1959 biopic of the patriotic Chinese musician Nie Er, a Communist Party member who drowned in Japan during his flight to Russia away from Nationalist oppression. The story centers on his composition of “The March of the Volunteers,” the theme song to the 1935 drama Children of Troubled Times, which was later adopted as the national anthem of the People’s Republic of China.