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  • A Young Patriot (2015)
  • 105 min | Documentary, Biography
A Young Patriot (2015)
105 min | Documentary, Biography
'A Young Patriot' explores passionate patriotism in China`s youths born after 1990. It follows 19-year-old Zhao flag-waving,slogan-shouting 'patriotic exhibitionist' for 3 years. His father is a factory worker when not gambling, his mother...See more'A Young Patriot' explores passionate patriotism in China`s youths born after 1990. It follows 19-year-old Zhao flag-waving,slogan-shouting 'patriotic exhibitionist' for 3 years. His father is a factory worker when not gambling, his mother a housewife, his older bother a proud soldier in PRC`s 60th anniversary military parade, his younger bother quits school to support the family. They live in a run-down courtyard and seem forgotten by China`s 'economic miracle'. Zhao leaves home to go to University where his value challenged by new western influences and teeters between old-fashioned Maoist patriotism and pragmatic thinking about the future. Du Haibin weaves this human story with patriotic education and nationalistic events in Chinese cities, questioning what patriotism is, its growth dangers,the direction it`s going. Written by Anonymous See less
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Director
Haibin Du
Writer
Haibin Du
Producer
Ruby Chen
Editor
Mary Stephen
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Updated Oct 3, 2014
Release date
Apr 24, 2016 (United States)
Awards
1 win & 5 nominations

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