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Written by Clifford Coonan
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
BEIJING -- Lensing has started on "The One," a propaganda film about the first
Chinese competitor in the Olympics that's part of the country's
continuing preparation for next year's summer Olympic Games in the
capital.
Based on the story of Liu Changchun, pic started lensing in the sprinter's hometown of Dalian in the northeast.
Movie
looks like solid patriotic fare about Liu, who is a hero in China for
resisting pressure by Japanese occupation forces to represent the
puppet state of Manchuria, where Dalian is located, at the 1932 Olympic
Games in Los Angeles. Liu instead represented the Republic of China.
Beijing
Forbidden City Film Co. is producing the film, which will star Li
Zhaolin, an amateur sprinter who studied acting at the Central Academy
of Drama. Pic is due to screen early next year and will also be shown
to athletes attending the Games, which start at the auspicious hour of
8 p.m. on Aug. 8, 2008.
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